Record Details
| NHER Number: | 35477 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of cropmarks originally thought to have been a medieval moat |
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Summary
This is the site of cropmarks/soilmarks visible on aerial photographs which were recorded as a medieval moat. Later photographs suggest they are natural geological marks or possibly drainage ditches.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 6976 1496 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF61SE |
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| Parish: | EAST WINCH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
19 April 1976. Ordnance Survey Air photography.
Soilmarks of moat.
Soilmark distorted by plough.
See file.
D. Voisey (NLA) 27 January 1995.
April 2014.
Later imagery (S1) suggests this is not a moat at all but natural geology. Two linear features are visible within the general geological noise but it is likely that these are drainage ditches.
K. Powell (HES), 16 April 2014
Monument Types
- MOAT (evidence: Soilmarks, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. OS 76-020-196. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Google Earth. ? - present. Google Earth Orthophotographs. https://earth.google.com/web. 02-07-2006 Accessed 16-APR-2014. |
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