NHER 53320 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Cropmarks of a trackway and ditches of unknown date

April 2010. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks of a trackway and associated ditches, some of which are likely to be former field boundaries, are visible on aerial photographs (S1-S3). The site is centred on TG 0985 1965. The date of the trackway and ditches is uncertain. Finds in the area include prehistoric, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, medieval and post medieval material (NHER 42645, 44047 & 44056) and some of these may relate to activity associated with the cropmarks. The morphology of the trackway and ditches could feasibly indicate an Iron Age to Roman date, although this is uncertain. It is also possible that some elements are medieval to early post medieval in date, as there appears to have been considered later post medieval boundary change in this area, see NHER 17347 for details, however the trackway has no obvious relationship with other mapped components of this earlier phase of medieval to post medieval boundaries, which underlie the early post medieval and modern field layout in this area. It must also be noted that some components of this site could confused with the geological cropmarks in this area, which made the confident identification of archaeological features problematic.
S. Horlock (NMP), 13 April 2010.