NHER 50932 (Monument record) - Earthworks of an medieval to post medieval date embankment and possible ridge and furrow

March 2008. Norfolk NMP.
The earthworks of a raised trackway or causeway and cropmarks of possible ridge and furrow or drainage ditches are visible on aerial photographs to the south of the Watlington Road (S1-S2).

The main component of this site consists of a raised trackway or bank visible as an earthwork in 1946 (S1) and cropmarks in 1976 (S2). This feature is likely to have acted as causeway across the damp ground and may be of medieval to post medieval date. Similar features have been mapped in the area (NHER 50925 and 50928).

A number of curvilinear ditches are visible to the north of this former embankment. Given the location of the site alongside a former channel running through Watlington from the northwest, it is probable that these are drainage ditches. However the curving nature of these features and that fact that are located to the immediate south of an area of surviving ridge and furrow earthworks (NHER 50589), then it is possible that these represent the remains of the plough-levelled remains of similar features.
S. Massey (NMP), 05 March 2008.