Record Details
| NHER Number: | 4205 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Brancaster Lane, a medieval road, by Spoil Bank |
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Summary
Brancaster Lane, a sunken medieval road lined by ditches, can be seen by Spoil Bank. The area used to be called Brancaster Common.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 8750 1337 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF81SE |
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| Parish: | LITTLE DUNHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Road on (S1).
Ordnance Survey marks site as 'Brancaster Lane' origin of name?
E. Rose (NAU).
December 1993.
[1] reports that the south edge of the wood called Spoil Bank is marked by sunken way flanked by ditches. This is likely
to be the true course of Brancaster Lane. The area was called Brancaster Common.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 17 January 1994.
Monument Types
- ROAD (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Miscellaneous. Dunham, Little. |
| <S1> | Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797. |
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