Record Details
| NHER Number: | 29482 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Probable drainage earthworks northwest of Pettywell |
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Summary
A possible medieval moat visible as a cropmark on 1988 aerial photographs is now thought more likely to be a post medieval land drainage management feature.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 0831 2330 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG02SE |
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| Parish: | REEPHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Probable moat visible on vertical air photograph taken during NCC/BKS survey of Norfolk 1988.
Survives as earthwork rectangle about 90m by 50m.
Site located in NLA earthwork survey, January 1993.
M. Flitcroft (NLA), 12 February 1993.
Low (0.3m) bank forming an almost complete rectangular enclosure with the north side an existing hedge/ditch. To the west is a near rectangular depression approximatley 1m deep and approximately 40m by 25m.
Both features are cut by a modern northeast to southwest drain.
Generally very wet area, suspect features are land management, water control of indeterminate but probably post medieval date.
B.Cushion (NLA), 3 February 1993.
March 2002.
Field under rough, 'reedy' grass with some patches of gorse and scrub.
H.Paterson (A&E), 3 February 2003.
Monument Types
- EARTHWORK (Unknown date)
- MOAT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SITE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- EARTHWORK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Vertical Aerial Photograph: BKS/NCC 3749-3750. |
Related records - none
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