Record Details
| NHER Number: | 21754 |
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| Type of record: | Cropmark and Earthwork |
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| Name: | Earthworks (now levelled) of possible medieval to post medieval settlement |
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Summary
Features interpreted as relating to medieval to post medieval settlement are visible as earthworks and soilmarks on aerial photographs and visualised lidar data. Some or all of the features might equally be related to drainage. The visualised lidar data, from a 2017 survey, shows that the earthworks have for the most part been levelled.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 9298 1223 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF91SW |
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| Parish: | WENDLING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
31 January 1973. Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs image.
Revised card.
List of sites gives deserted medieval village at this reference - no details.
Soilmark of ploughed out bank and ditch suggested by D. Edwards (NAU) as moat and other small enclosures to north. All in parish of Wendling and not partly in Fransham as previously suggested.
D. Edwards (NAU) 5 December 1985 and E. Rose (NAU) 25 August 1987.
NGR corrected from original TF 9299 1218.
M. Horlock (NLA) 7 April 2003.
December 2023. Wendling Beck and Fransham Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AIM) Project.
The possible medieval (or medieval to post medieval) settlement described above is visible as earthworks and soilmarks on aerial photographs (S1-S3) and visualised lidar data (S4). It is certainly feasible that the features relate to settlement, but their character is such that it is equally like that at least some of them are drainage features. The visualised lidar data (S4), from a 2017 survey, shows that the earthworks have for the most part been levelled.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 15 December 2023.
Monument Types
- DITCH (Unknown date)
- DRAINAGE DITCH? (Unknown date)
- ENCLOSURE (Unknown date)
- DESERTED SETTLEMENT? (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- MOAT? (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SETTLEMENT? (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD? to 1900 AD?)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: CUCAP BLP 17. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Various. Various. Vertical Aerial Photography from the Historic England Archive. RAF/3G/TUD/UK/100 V 5296-5297 30-MAR-1946. |
| <S2> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Various. Various. Vertical Aerial Photography from the Historic England Archive. OS/71046 V 090-091 11-APR-1971. |
| <S3> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: Various. ? - 2020. Norfolk Air Photo Library: Oblique Collection. TF9212/C 31-JAN-1973 (CUCAP BLP17). |
| <S4> | LIDAR Airborne Survey: Environment Agency. Environment Agency LIDAR Data. National LIDAR Programme TF91SW DTM 1m 17 to 24-NOV-2017. |
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