NHER 36465 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Cropmarks of dispersed and fragmentary linear and rectilinear ditches of unknown date

19 July 1996. NLA air photography (S1).
A series of cropmarks visible north of Mill Farm.
Consisting an extensive, double-ditched linear feature (recorded as the Fen Causeway - NHER 2796) and numerous additional small enclosures and linear features.
Unusually the line of the road (between the ditches) is not seen as a parchmark for most of this visible stretch.
Equally unusual is a potential 'butt end' to the ditch at the eastern end, on a length not previously seen.
If this is the Fen Causeway it must turn sharply southwards before reaching Brampton to join with previously recorded lengths.
Alternatively one of the two road-like anomalies further south is actually NHER 2796 (see NHER 7650 also).
An adjoining enclosure suggests this may be a road/track type feature, but the cropmarks here do not suggest the presence of an agger.
A faint cropmark of a sub-circular enclosure is likely to pre-date the double-ditched 'road' feature.
M. Brennand (NLA), 9 May 2001.

May 2023. Aylsham and Brampton Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AIM) Project.
The cropmarks described above are now recorded as separate records; this record, NHER 36465, relates to fragmentary, possibly multi-period cropmarks; a ring ditch (probably the sub-circular enclosure mentioned above) is recorded as NHER 66759; a second possible ring ditch as NHER 66760; two square enclosures, possibly square barrows, are recorded as NHER 66761 and 66762; the section of Roman road as NHER 66763 (part of NHER 2796); and overlapping rectilinear enclosures (one of which is mentioned above as adjoining the road) as NHER 66764.
Dispersed and fragmentary cropmarks, mainly of undated linear and rectilinear ditches, are visible on aerial photographs (S2-S8) across several fields. Some of the features may be contemporary with the more complete features recorded in the southern part of the site (NHER 66759 to 66764), while others may be unrelated. The linear and rectilinear nature of many of the cropmarks suggests they may represent fragments of field system and/or enclosures. Several possible pits, visible to the south of a section of Roman road (NHER 66763), could potentially be associated with the road, but a geological origin for the marks is also possible. It is certainly likely that more than one phase of activity is represented. It is also possible that some of the cropmarks are of geological or recent agricultural origin, and of no archaeological significance.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 3 May 2023.