NHER 38515 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Cropmark of post medieval trackway

March 2004, Norfolk NMP
The cropmarks of a trackway described below were previously recorded as NHER 36485.

At least one trackway and the field boundaries of a contemporary field system of probable post medieval date are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs (S1-2), centred at TG 2426 3556. The rather sinuous trackway, which crosses the site from north-west to south-east, corresponds with a track depicted on Faden's map of 1797 (S3) which leads towards Thorpe Hall. At its northern end the trackway is conjoined with a number of straight, linear field boundaries of probable post-medieval date. These appear to be double-ditched and in at least one case a former hedge bank is visible, although alternatively these features could also be trackways. Several shorter lengths of narrower ditches are also visible; these may be drainage features or subdivisions of the larger fields. Parts of a second trackway or another double-ditched field boundary are visible at TG 2413 3549. All of the features appear to form part of a post-medieval landscape, perhaps with some medieval elements surviving, which once surrounded the site of Thorpe Hall.
(S1-3)
S. Tremlett (NMP), 22 March 2004