NHER 43742 (Monument record) - Post medieval drainage ditches and field boundaries, east of Eastfield Farm

March 2005. Norfolk NMP.
A group of post medieval drainage ditches and field boundaries are visible on aerial photographs to north of the Poor Allotment marshes, Hickling (S1-S2). The site is centred on TG 4298 2341, although this point does not correspond to an archaeological feature on the ground. The main component of the site is a curvilinear double ditched ditch or drain running alongside the northern edge of the common, the Poor Allotment marshes. This feature appears to pre-date the 1808 parliamentary enclosure of Hickling (S3; p97) and is likely to originally have been a natural drainage creek, one of the many which would have formed the earliest boundaries in these lower valley locations. This is to the immediate north of a possible medieval peat cutting, part of the Gage’s and Hare’s Broads complexes (NHER 32157).
S. Massey (NMP), 29 March 2005.