NHER 44934 (Monument record) - Site of undated ditches and banks

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Summary

A disparate group of fragmentary ditches and banks, all of unknown date, is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. They are distributed across an extensive swathe of land, and it is likely that more than one phase of activity is represented. The attributes they share is that little or nothing is known about the origin or date of any of them, and they are not obviously related either to each other or to more complete sites visible in the surrounding area.

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Location

Map sheet	TG41NW
Civil Parish	ASHBY WITH OBY, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK
Civil Parish	THURNE, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

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October 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A group of fragmentary linear, curvilinear and rectilinear banks and ditches is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs (S1)-(S3), centred at TG 4158 1573. They are spread across a wide area and all are undated. Some may be of non-archaeological origin. There is little to link them in archaeological terms, but they are recorded together here for two reasons: firstly, because their origin and date is unknown, and secondly because they have no clear association with other nearby sites (e.g. NHER 44936 50m to the north or NHER 45060 195m to the southwest), although such relationships are likely to have existed in the past. The cropmarks of boundaries depicted on 19th century maps, such as Ashby with Oby and Thurne Tithe Map (S4), are also visible across this area but they have not been mapped as part of the NMP.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 24 October 2006.

Associated Sources (4)

<S1> SNF65645 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1634 3054-5 09-JUL-1946 (NHER TG 4116B, TG 4115A).
<S2> SNF64901 Oblique Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. 1976. CUCAP (BZC82-3) 05-JUL-1976 SNF64341 Oblique Aerial Photograph CUCAP, 1976, NHER TM 3493AE (CUCAP BZC 58) 05-JUL-1976.
<S3> SNF65507 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1990. OS/90224 166-7 31-JUL-1990 (NMR).
<S4> SNF59127 Map: Wright, J.. No date. Ashby with Oby and Thurne Tithe Map. 1 inch: 3 chains.

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Record last edited

Apr 21 2017 3:38PM