NHER 54574 (Monument record) - Cropmarks of probable medieval to post medieval track

February 2011. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks, and possibly slight earthworks, of an embanked hollow way or track of probable medieval to post medieval date is visible on aerial photographs (S1-S2) to the north of the Fifty Acre Plantation, Brettenham. The site is centred on TL 9241 8455. This hollowed route with a bank to either side is likely to have originally been an extension of the track to the south, which now follows a straightened course to the east. Although it id hard to be certain the track appears to follows this straight route on Faden’s map of 1797 (S3), so the hollowed track visible on aerial photographs must date to prior to the late eighteenth century.
S. Horlock (NMP), 02 February 2011.