NHER 49419 (Monument record) - Site of undated pit-like feature

May 2007. Norfolk NMP.
A pit-like cropmark is visible on an aerial photograph (S1), centred at TG 3212 2454. Its size, regular outline and strength as a cropmark suggest that the underlying feature was man-made. A prehistoric pit (compare those mapped at Ashby, NHER 44906) or a Saxon grubenhaus are both possibilities, but the fact that a ‘Sand Pit’ is depicted 50m to the northwest on the Ordnance Survey 1st edition 6 inch map (S2) indicates that a more mundane origin is equally (if not more) likely. A geological or recent agricultural origin is also possible.

The pit is roughly oval in plan and measures 12m long and 10m wide.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 23 May 2007.