Record Details
| NHER Number: | 40183 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | The Great Wood |
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Summary
A series of medieval or post medieval hollow ways, roads, ponds and enclosures surviving as earthworks within the Great Wood were noted during a survey of ancient woodland in 2004.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 19322 40078 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG14SE |
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| Parish: | AYLMERTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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| FELBRIGG, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
2004. Earthwork Rapid Identification Survey.
Norfolk Ancient Woodland Historic Environment Rapid Identification Survey Pilot Study.
Great Wood:
Fragmentary, but often substantial remains of hollow ways and roadways, in part noted in earlier reports in file.
Limited enclosure remains, and various pits and ponds, the latter probably clay-lined.
Sub-circular mound on line of parish boundary possibly a very degraded barrow.
Early map evidence throws doubt on classification of all as Ancient Woodland.
See report (S1) for further information, including detailed descriptions of the individual features identified (Contexts 1-37). The results of this survey are also summarised in (S2).
B. Cushion, June 2004. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 29 June 2015.
Monument Types
- BARROW? (Unknown date)
- BANK (EARTHWORK) (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- DITCH (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- ENCLOSURE (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- HOLLOW WAY (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POND (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- ROAD (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- EXTRACTIVE PIT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Cushion, B. 2004. Norfolk Ancient Woodland Historic Environment Rapid Identification Survey. Pilot Study Final Report. Brian Cushion Archaeological & Cartographical Surveyor. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. 2005. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk in 2004. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIV Pt IV pp 751-763. p 757. |
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