NHER 51978 (Monument record) - Cropmarks of a small square enclosure and ditches, possibly former field boundaries, of potential Iron Age to Roman date

March 2009. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks of a small square enclosure and associated ditches, possibly representing the remains of former field boundaries and enclosures of Iron Age to Roman date, are visible on aerial photographs (S1-S2) to the southeast of Holy Cross Church within the former parkland surrounding Stoke Hall (NHER 9766). The site is centred on TG 2363 0070. The site consists of a number of ditches, one of which has a small, conjoined enclosure, approximately 4m square. This ditch turns to the west, perhaps indicating that it defines the edge of a field or larger enclosure. These cropmarks show no obvious relationship to either the pre-park boundaries within Stoke Hall parkland (NHER 14240) or the late Saxon to medieval settlement cropmarks to the west (NHER 51984). It is therefore assumed that they are pre-medieval in date. A number of Iron Age and Roman finds have been recovered from this general area, for example NHER 24332, perhaps indicating that the ditches mapped could date to this period.
S. Horlock (NMP), 11 March 2009.