NHER 42100 (Monument record) - Post medieval drainage ditch

September 2005. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks of a post medieval drainage channel are visible on aerial photographs, to the west of Brograve Farm (S1 and S2). The site is centred on TG 4394 2525. This channel consists of two parallel linear cuts 4m apart, the broader of the two running from TG 4386 2522 to TG 4400 2527. These linears run parallel and are approximately 10m to the east of part of a major curvilinear boundary enclosing the edge of the marshes on the Waxham Enclosure map (S3). This map must have been surveyed between 1820 and 1840, as the Waxham New Cut is marked, and this navigable channel was dug in the 1820’s (NHER 35366), and before the 1840, as this is the date of Waxham Tithe map (S4), at which time the boundary is still in use. It forms part of a pair of sinuous boundaries that run along the former edge of the marshes and probably follows the line of former creeks and natural channels, see NHER 27704, 27707 for other elements of these channels.
S. Massey (NMP), 30 September 2005.