NHER 1972 (Monument record) - Earthworks and vegetation marks of meadow enclosures and possible crofts of medieval to post medieval date

In this field, known as South Gates, member of the public [1] has seen three parallel banks (NCM records), and told E. Rose (NAU) in 1975 of a local legend that there was a monastery here.

5 October 1977. Site visit by E. Rose (NAU).
Pasture - banks difficult to make out, if they really exist; field bumpy. No record of a monastery at South Creake.
E. Rose (NAU).

Grid reference as above.
Ordnance Survey Records.
R. J. Rickett (NAU) 18 July 1990

Linear earthworks seen on NAU aerial photography.
D. Edwards (NAU) 18 March 1988.

Individual [2] notes: in 15th/16th century this furlong was full of messuages and crofts, hence probably the earthworks.
E. Rose (NLA) 25 July 1996.

November 2025. Northwest Norfolk Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AI&M) Project.
The linear features described above are visible as earthworks and vegetation marks on aerial photographs (S1-S2) and visualised lidar data (S3). As suggested in the Historic England Research Record for the site (S4), they probably represent meadow enclosures, presumably of medieval to post medieval date, but they could feasibly relate instead to former medieval to post medieval crofts as suggested above. They have been mapped as simple banks; there is some indication on the sources that they may have been flanked by ditches, but these are poorly defined and difficult to correlate across the different sources. A depression with the small rectilinear enclosure ma relate to quarrying or water management. The visualised lidar data (S3), derived from a survey flown in 2018, and recent Google Earth imagery from 2025 (S5) show that it is probable that some earthwork elements still survive.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 20 November 2025.