NHER 51995 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Cropmarks of ditches, potentially relating to former field boundaries of possible Roman date

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Summary

The cropmarks of possible fragmentary ditches of unknown date are visible on aerial photographs to the west of Primrose Farm, Swainsthorpe. The archaeological origin of these cropmarks is not certain and a natural cause for the cropmarks remains a possibility.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG20SW
Civil Parish SWAINSTHORPE, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

March 2009. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks of possible fragmentary ditches of unknown date are visible on aerial photographs to the west of Primrose Farm, Swainsthorpe (S1). The site is centred on TG 2183 0048. A Roman find within the vicinity of these cropmarks (NHER 23724) could indicate a Roman date for the ditches. However the archaeological origin of these cropmarks is not certain and a natural cause for the cropmarks remains a possibility. The features are located within an area of geologically derived cropmarks, many of which are linear or rectilinear in nature. It is therefore possible that the linear features mapped as possible ditches are in fact natural in origin.
S. Horlock (NMP), 23 March 2009.

  • <S1> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1992. OS/92336 041-2 11-JUN-1992 (NMR).

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Feb 6 2023 12:04PM

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