NHER 27212 (Monument record) - Earthwork of probable post medieval linear road

January 2003. Norfolk NMP.
The feature is visible in five separate lengths (S1) although it was almost certainly all one feature originally. The feature is aligned in an approximate north-west to south-east direction, but kinks further towards the south 50m from its eastern end. The feature is extremely straight and regular and has a minimum recorded length 686m, although the feature originally continued both to the east and west. There is a 200m stretch of narrow ditch on the southern side of the ditch at its western end (S1).
This was probably an embanked roadway, joining the farms on the newly reclaimed saltmarsh. The feature is visible on Faden’s map (S2) and the first edition Ordnance Survey (S3), although it is difficult to determine whether it is a bank, a track, or both that is actually depicted. Its location on the reclaimed saltmarsh would suggest a post medieval date for its construction, and the feature appears to have largely been levelled by the start of the twentieth century (S4). It is interesting to note that only a small part of the course of this feature has been fossilised in the present field boundary system suggesting it was not an important landscape feature when the area was enclosed with fields.
M. Brennand (NMP), 21 Jaunary 2003.