NHER 61546 (Monument record) - Possible ridge and furrow, cultivation or plantation ridges, probably of post-medieval date

April 2017. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
Traces of possible ridge and furrow, cultivation or plantation ridges, probably of post-medieval date, are visible as earthworks on imagery from a recent lidar survey (S1). The features appear to follow two opposing orientations, perhaps indicating cross-ploughing. They may have been created during short-lived arable cultivation of heathland, or to grow fodder crops for rabbits. Alternatively, they might have been created to aid the establishment of forestry plantations. A post-medieval date is likely for all these processes and is also suggested by the straightness and narrowness of the ridges, but an earlier origin cannot be ruled out. Equally, a more modern origin relating to forestry is also possible. Other sites of a similar nature have been recorded in the vicinity (NHER 61548 and 61545, for example).
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 3 April 2017.