NHER 61508 (Monument record) - Undated, perhaps post-medieval, rectangular enclosure
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
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Map
Full Description
November 2016. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
A rectangular enclosure of unknown date is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery from a survey flown in 2015 (S1). Its relationship with modern roads and boundaries, and those depicted on 19th century maps such as the Ordnance Survey First Edition (S2), suggests that a post-medieval date is likely. Its use is perhaps related to warrening, stock management, heathland management or temporary cultivation. It is also possible that it relates to a 'Lodge' marked at this approximate location on Faden's 1797 Map of Norfolk (S3), but this is far from certain. It is very likely that the earthworks visible on the lidar still survive.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 18 November 2016.
July 2019. Breckland National Mapping Programme.
Probable 20th century military practice trenches within the enclosure (NHER 63338), which are also visible on the lidar imagery, are presumed to post-date its main use.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 10 July 2019.
Associated Sources (3)
- <S1> SNF94129 LIDAR Airborne Survey: Various. LIDAR Airborne Survey. LIDAR Lynford Forest Research 0.5m DTM 15-JUN-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial).
- <S2> SNF53293 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1884-1891. Ordnance Survey Map. Six inches to the mile. First Edition. 1:10,560.
- <S3> SNF6047 Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (6)
Object Types (0)
Related NHER Records (0)
Record last edited
May 26 2020 5:41PM