NHER 18859 (Cropmark and Earthwork) - An earthwork pit of unknown but possible post medieval date

February 1983. Air Photo Interpretation.
Positive cropmark.
One ring ditch.
See Aerial Archaeology Foundation photograph in Norfolk Air Photo Library (S1).
D. Edwards (NAU) 10 February 1983.

Possibly an infilled pit but not definitely so.
E. Rose (NAU) 21 February 1983.

I have looked at the 1946 RAF aerial photographs under my stereoscope and there is a very large depression on this site. Certainly is an infilled pit and not a ring ditch, as we thought. There is no need to visit the site.
D. Edwards (NLA) 13 October 1997.

June 2023. Wendling Beck and Fransham Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AIM) Project.
The earthworks and cropmarks of a pit of an unknown, but possible post medieval date are visible on aerial photographs and on relatively recent (2017) visualised lidar (S2-S5). The pit feature most likely relates to a former infilled post medieval extraction pit. It is also possible that the pit could relate to a natural hollow or former pond. The feature can be seen as a low earthwork on S3 and S5. The feature can also be seen as cropmark on S2 and S4. As the feature is visible as an earthwork on the visualised lidar data (S5), it is likely that the feature still survives as an earthwork. The feature has been formerly suggested (see above) to have related to a Bronze Age ring ditch. However, as the feature can be seen as an earthwork pit on multiple sources it is likely that the feature relates to a post medieval extraction pit and has therefore not been mapped as part of this project. The monument polygon has been updated to the location of the feature as seen on S5.
J. Powell (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 29 June 2023.