NHER 18334 (Monument record) - Site of possible garden features of post medieval date

11 July 1980. NAU aerial photography.
Positive cropmarks.
Linear cropmarks.
See (S1)
S. Norton (NAU), 30 July 1982.

Forming rectangles.
Perhaps gardens of Old Hall demolished in 1950s.
E. Rose (NAU), 20 August 1982.

The Old Hall appears on Bryant's map of 1826 (S2) and may be the building marked as Salhouse Farm on Faden 1797 (S3). The 1938 25inch Ordnance Survey gives a good impression of its size.
E. Rose (NLA), 9 January 2001.

February 2008. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks described above are visible on aerial photographs from a number of different years (S4)-(S7), centred at TG 2980 1430. The way in which they appear on different aerial photographs is rather confusing, making what type of feature they overlie difficult to interpret. (In some cases the more substantial ditches appear as two parallel narrow ditches.) Their interpretation as garden features, associated with the site of Old Hall, as suggested above, seems plausible, however. A possible enclosure at TG 2975 1432, which has a pit-like feature at its northern end, could represent a former garden compartment, or even a path encircling a lawn or border. It is notable that on aerial photographs taken in 1970 (S8), on which it is visible as a soilmark, the eastern side of this ‘enclosure’ appears to follow the line or be part of a (probably) natural channel leading into the pond to its south. (See too NHER 50719.) Overall the features fit the pattern of enclosure depicted on 19th and early 20th century maps, indicating that they are almost certainly of post medieval date. One, forming the western side of the postulated ‘enclosure’, corresponds to a boundary depicted on Salhouse Tithe Map of 1841 (S9).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 6 February 2008.