NHER 61545 (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.
Possible traces of ridge and furrow, cultivation or plantation ridges, probably of post-medieval date, are visible as earthworks on imagery from a recent lidar survey (S1). 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 61546 and 61548, for example). Some of the boundary banks and ditches crossing and surrounding the site (part of NHER 61991) may be contemporary.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 3 April 2017.