Record Details
| NHER Number: | 18322 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Cropmarks of possible Roman road/trackway |
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Summary
Aerial photographs taken in 1980 showed the cropmarks of parallel ditches of a possible trackway at this location. This trackway appears to continue the line of Roman road (NHER 8786) and is therefore presumably a feature of contemporary date.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 9787 0093 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF90SE |
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| Parish: | SCOULTON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
18 July 1980. NAU aerial photography.
Positive cropmarks.
Cropmarks of parallel ditches of possible trackway.
D. Edwards (NAU) 6 July 1982.
This is in fact the same as the 'eroded bank visible on either side of present north-to-south lane and underneath road surface of land itself, appearing to continue line of Roman road 8786' noted by C. J. S. Green in April 1975.
This was wrongly placed further south and numbered NHER 4375 at that time.
OS surveyors 1978 noted bank continuing east of land where not visible on NAU aerial photographs.
Measured survey in file.
E. Rose (NAU) 28 November 1983.
Monument Types
- TRACKWAY (Unknown date)
- ROAD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- TRACKWAY (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: TF 9700A-C. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
Related records
| 52027 | Part of: Roman road from Caistor Roman town to the settlement and temple at Crownthorpe (Monument) |
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