NHER 38963 (Monument record) - Cropmarks of probable medieval enclosure and field boundaries

A number of probable field boundaries and a possible enclosure, perhaps dating to the medieval period, are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The features are overlain by the cropmarks of a post medieval field system (NHER 38960) but their alignment is not wholly at odds with this later system of land division. A medieval date therefore seems likely, with the post medieval field system developing out of the earlier pattern. Both groups of field boundaries follow a different orientation to an even earlier field system which probably dates from the Iron Age to Roman periods. This is predominantly visible as an extensive band of cropmarks to the south and southeast (e.g. NHER 38961 and NHER 31746) but ditches mapped in the same field as the site described here may also belong to the same phase of activity.