NHER 42386 (Monument record) - Undated mound at Somerton Holmes

January 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A mound is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs (S1 to S2), centred at TG 4712 2167. Its date and function are unknown. It is respected by a rectilinear ditch which passes to its northeast and northwest. The ditch forms part of an extensive medieval to post medieval drainage system (NHER 42360). The mound may or may not have performed some kind of function within this system. It is evidence from more recent aerial photographs, for example (S3), that the mound has now been at least partially levelled.

The mound has an elongated curvilinear shape and is noticeably flattened at its northeast end. It measures approximately 17m long and 10m wide.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 13 January 2006.