NHER 35477 (Monument record) - Site of cropmarks originally thought to have been a medieval moat

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Summary

This is the site of cropmarks/soilmarks visible on aerial photographs which were recorded as a medieval moat. Later photographs suggest they are natural geological marks or possibly drainage ditches.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF61SE
Civil Parish EAST WINCH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

19 April 1976. Ordnance Survey Air photography.
Soilmarks of moat.
Soilmark distorted by plough.
See file.
D. Voisey (NLA) 27 January 1995.

April 2014.
Later imagery (S1) suggests this is not a moat at all but natural geology. Two linear features are visible within the general geological noise but it is likely that these are drainage ditches.
K. Powell (HES), 16 April 2014

  • --- Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. OS 76-020-196.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Google Earth. ? - present. Google Earth Orthophotographs. https://earth.google.com/web. 02-07-2006 Accessed 16-APR-2014.

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Record last edited

Mar 29 2021 2:05PM

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