NHER 61097 (Monument) - Bank or raised path at Santon Street

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Summary

A bank or raised path/embankment, leading from fireroute 21 to the railway (NHER 13571). It is on the line of a path shown on a later 19th century map. It may be the remnants of this trackway and could pre date the railway. Alternatively, it may have been built to provide access to the railway across sloping land.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL88NW
Civil Parish LYNFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

August 2014. Breaking New Ground field visit. HA 7.
A 20m long bank aligned northnortheast by southsouthwest. 10m wide and up to 1m high (it is tallest at the southern end). Flat top and gently sloping sides.
A bank or raised path/embankment, leading from fireroute 21 to the railway (NHER 13571). It is on the line of a path shown on (S1). It may be the remnants of this trackway and could pre date the railway. Alternatively, it may have been built to provide access to the railway across sloping land.
D. Robertson (HES), 27 July 2015.

December 2017. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The bank, raised path or embankment described above is depicted on readily accessible historical Ordnance Survey maps, and as a consequence it has not been mapped by the project.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 15th December 2017.

  • <S1> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1883. Ordnance Survey 6 inch map.

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Record last edited

Dec 15 2017 4:25PM

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