Record Details

NHER Number:26885
Type of record:Monument
Name:Cropmark of late prehistoric trackway

Summary

A possible trackway of late prehistoric date is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The site consists of a interrupted ditch and pit alignment.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 67906 39060
Map Sheet:TF63NE
Parish:HEACHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

April 2002. Norfolk NMP.
Possible trackway of late prehistoric date, visible on NLA oblique aerial photographs from 1989 (S1). Two parallel alignments of short section of ditches and pits visible, 100m long in all, running from TF 6794 3902 to TF 6786 3908. The ditches vary in length from 3m to 15m. It appears to be a trackway of some sort, the dating of which is uncertain, but likely to be late prehistoric.
S. Massey (NMP), 24 April 2002.

Monument Types

  • DITCH (Unknown date)
  • LINEAR FEATURE (Unknown date)
  • TRACKWAY (Unknown date)
  • TRACKWAY (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

<S1>Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.. 1989. NHER TF 6738N-P (NLA 234/DLZ2-3) 05-JUL-1989.

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