NHER 24907 (Monument record) - Cropmarks of an undated rectangular enclosure

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Summary

A rectangular earthwork with banks on three sides and completed by a dyke on the fourth side was recorded here. These features are hard to identify on aerial photographs of the site. No date or function has been ascribed to this enclosure.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF82NE
Civil Parish RAYNHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Earthwork.
Rectangular, but no bank on east where dyke forms the boundary.
Banks about 60cm (2ft) high; roughly 3 x 6m (10 x 20ft). No ditches. In pasture. Few small drainage channels in same field and more in second field to southeast but nothing resembling this.
E. Rose (NAU) 14 November 1988.

22 July 1993. NLA aerial photography (S1).
Features not easily visible.
M. Brennand (NLA) 8 February 2001.

19 July 1996. NLA air photography (S2).
Earthworks of rectangular enclosure still extant.
S. Massey (NLA) 20 April 2001.

September 2016. Field Observation.
Assessment of earthworks ahead of works undertaken as part of the River Wensum Restoration Scheme.
Low banks were visible in the area of pasture where this enclosure had previously been recorded. Due to dense undergrowth it was impossible to determine whether it extended into the adjacent woodland.
The earthworks were not affected by the groundworks.
See report (S3) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 14 May 2024.

  • --- Aerial Photograph: TF8725/ABM-ABP.
  • <S1> Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1993. TF 8725ABY - ACA.
  • <S2> Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1996. TF8725/ACG - ACH.
  • <S3> Unpublished Contractor Report: Wallis, H. 2016. River Wensum Restoration, Upper Wensum Phase 2. Monitoring of Works Under Archaeological Supervision and Control. Heather Wallis. 198.

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Record last edited

May 14 2024 6:42PM

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