NHER 24980 (Monument record) - Medieval tofts and fishponds at Hall Farm

5 January 1979. CUCAP aerial photography.
Rectangular enclosures under snow - shrunken village?
Possibly includes the 'fishponds' noted by Ordnance Survey as at site NHER 4935.
E. Rose (NAU) and D. Edwards (NAU), 14 December 1988.

Field south of farm drive under good pasture, grazed by horses.
Undulations visible. To north field unmanaged, rough grass.
No earthworks definable.
H. Paterson (NLA), 12 March 1996.

April 1996. Earthwork Survey.
Survey at 1:1000 of southern part of earthworks.
Surveyed area comprises a series of ditched subrectangular enclosures extending eastwards to a sinuous probably former watercourse, with an incomplete banked enclosure and truncated boundary features on the higher ground to the west, indicating a likely series of medieval tofts (houses and garden).
See report (S1) further details and copy of plan (S2). This survey is also noted in (S5).
B. Cushion (NLA), April 1996.

25 July 1996. NLA air photography.
Earthworks visible, in particular to the southern edge of the site.
S. Massey (NLA), 22 November 2001.

October 2002.
Drainage trench dug across the earthworks and some features infilled along the east edge.
See (S3) in file.
Works by Norfolk County Council Planning and Transportation.
D. Gurney (NLA), 1 November 2002.

November 2002. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of remedial works.
See report (S4) for further details.
D. Gurney (NLA), 20 December 2002.