NHER 43402 (Monument record) - Site of undated enclosure west of South Winterton Broiler Farm

March 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A small, sub rectangular enclosure is visible as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (S1), centred at TG 4980 1823. Its date, function, and relationship with other nearby cropmark sites are not known. The fact that it is visible on only one aerial photograph means that its archaeological origin is not entirely certain. The cropmark, however, is fairly convincing, and the run of vertical photographs was taken at a particularly fortuitous time, late in the year, when many cropmarks were visible elsewhere which have also not been identified on the other consulted aerial photographs.

The enclosure is sub rectangular in shape and measures 20m long and 17.5m wide. The cropmark of its northeast corner is not particularly clear. It may contain one or more internal pits but nothing is clear enough to warrant mapping. A wide, dark cropmark (not mapped) visible to its northeast, which runs across the corner of the field from northwest to southeast, probably marks the course of a palaeochannel. The siting of the enclosure immediately adjacent to this former topographical feature might be significant.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 20 March 2006.