NHER 45071 (Monument record) - Site of possible ditches of unknown date

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Summary

Possible ditches, all of unknown date, are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. They might be drainage ditches, perhaps associated with the lake (presumably a former Broad) depicted in this approximate area on Faden’s 1797 Map of Norfolk. The archaeological origin of the cropmarks, however, is uncertain.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TG41NW
Civil Parish	LUDHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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October 2006. Norfolk NMP.
Several possible ditches are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 4042 1809. If the cropmarks represent archaeological features, which is far from certain, the ditches may have been drains. These may have been associated with the former lake (probably a flooded peat cutting) depicted in this approximate area (perhaps immediately to the north of the site) on Faden’s Map of Norfolk (S2). If the features are archaeological in nature, there may be further, unmapped archaeological cropmarks in this field.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 27 October 2006.

Associated Sources (2)

<S1> SNF65469 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1990. OS/90224 236-7 31-JUL-1990 (NMR).
<S2> SNF6047 Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797.