Record Details

NHER Number:13509
Type of record:Monument
Name:Rollesby Broad complex

Summary

A series of medieval peat cuttings, which flooded in the late medieval and post medieval periods to form broads. The complex is shown on Saxton's map of 1574.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 462 148
Map Sheet:TG41SE
Parish:FILBY, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK
FLEGGBURGH, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK
HEMSBY, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK
ORMESBY ST MICHAEL, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK
ROLLESBY, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

Full description

Rollesby Broad, both Ormesby Broads, Filby Broad, Lily Broad, and Little Broad (Burgh Common).
Medieval peat workings; note parish boundaries and roads crossing on causeways.
The broads are separated from each other by banks of uncut peat, suggesting that they were worked independently and later linked.
See (S1) and (S2).

Monument Types

  • PEAT CUTTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status

  • SHINE

Sources and further reading

---Aerial Photograph: TG4613 H,J.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1985. Bid to protect Trinity Broads. 19 January.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
---Map: Saxton, C. 1689. The County of Norfolk.
<S1>Monograph: Lambert, J.M. & Jennings, J.N.. 1960. The Making of the Broads: A Reconsideration of their Origin in the Light of New Evidence..
<S2>Monograph: Williamson, T.. 1997. The Norfolk Broads: a landscape history..

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