NHER 38992 (Monument record) - Cropmarks of three possible Iron Age to Roman field boundaries

Three possible field boundaries, which could be of Iron Age to Roman date, are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. Each boundary, visible as the cropmark of a ditch, is rather isolated but as a group they follow a northwest to southeast/northeast to southwest orientation. More extensive field systems identified to the east (e.g. NHER 38961) follow this same alignment, and have been tentatively dated to the Iron Age and Roman periods on morphological grounds. A possible Roman hairpin has been recovered from a site (NHER 30318) 650m to the south of the site described here. In addition, the possible field boundaries are clearly at variance with the field pattern of the area depicted on 19th-century maps and partially visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs (NHER 38991).