Record Details
| NHER Number: | 25328 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | War Dyke medieval flood bank |
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Summary
The remains of a medieval flood bank exist along the line of the parish boundary here. The central section survives, but the rest has been flattened.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 57851 19693 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF51NE |
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| Parish: | CLENCHWARTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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| TILNEY ALL SAINTS, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Name is a corruption of Bardyke.
Called War Bank on six inch Ordnance Survey map.
Floodbank dividing two parishes; survives in central section to over two metres high, but flattened eslewhere.
Probably same as the Indyke breached in 1337 (S1).
E. Rose (NAU) 6 July 1989.
April-June 1998. Watching Brief.
King's Lynn to Sutton Bridge Trunk Water Main (Plot 5).
Observation of works for laying of pipeline.
Largely flattened, cut by pipe route; shallow disturbed section showed natural silt make up.
See report (S2) for further details.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2016.38 and NWHCM : 2017.417).
P. Watkins (HES), 18 March 2015. Amended 17 May 2019.
Monument Types
- BANK (EARTHWORK) (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SEA DEFENCES (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1988. The Fenland Project Number 3: Marshland and Nar Valley, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 45. p 53. |
| <S2> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Crowson, A. 1998. King's Lynn to Sutton Bridge Trunk Water Main. Archaeological Survey and Watching Brief. Part II. Topsoil Strip Watching Brief: Finds Collection, Metal Detecting and Excavation. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 364. |
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