NHER 49304 (Monument record) - Probable post medieval field boundaries and enclosures

March 2007. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks of post medieval field boundaries and enclosures are visible on aerial photographs to the east of Chapelfield Farm, Stalham (S1-S2). The site is centred on TG 3677 2428.

The cropmarks reveal a series of rectangular enclosures and fields on a similar alignment to the post medieval field boundaries marked on the 1841 Tithe map (S3). A number of the cropmark field boundaries actually line up with boundaries marked on the Tithe map, although the cropmarks obviously reveal on earlier and more elaborate layout. A number of parallel boundaries running east-west were not mapped as these did not add any additional significant information that that provided by the Tithe map.

To the south of the main enclosures is a sub-rectangular enclosure with an elongated pit-like feature within one end. It is possible that this marks a former sunken structure, a pond or perhaps an area of extraction similar to those mapped further to east (NHER 49303).
S. Massey (NMP) 29 March 2007.