Record Details
| NHER Number: | 26915 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Post medieval track or road |
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Summary
A track or road of post medieval date is showing as a cropmark on the 1946 RAF aerial photographs. Two sections of it are visible. It is actually marked on the Ordnance Survey 1 inch 1st edition map, but is no longer present on the Ordnance Survey 25 inch 2nd edition map and the northernmost section of it can be seen on Bryant’s map of Norfolk (1826).
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 71773 42582 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF74SW |
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| Parish: | HOLME NEXT THE SEA, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
May 2002. Norfolk 2002. Norfolk NMP.
A track/road is showing as a cropmark on the 1946 RAF aerial photographs (S1-(S2). Two sections of it are visible, running from (a) TF71007 4298 to T7119 4287 and (b) TF7168 4265 to TF7219 4218. It is actually marked on the Ordnance Survey 1 inch 1st edition map (S3), but is no longer present on the Ordnance Survey 25 inch 2nd edition map (S4) (though secton a remains as a field boundary). Also the northernmost section of track (a) can be seen on Bryant’s map of Norfolk (1826) (S5). This road is of post medieval date.
H. Clare (NMP), 17 May 2002.
Monument Types
- ROAD (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1571 4008 07-JUN-1946 (Norfolk SMR TF 7143B). |
| <S2> | Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1571 3047 07-JUN-1946 (Norfolk SMR TF 7242A). |
| <S3> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1902-7. OS 25" 2nd edition (1902-7) Sheet VI.2. |
| <S4> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1824-67. OS 1" 1st edition (1824-67) sheet 69 (Boston). |
| <S5> | Map: Bryant, A.. 1826. Bryant's Map of Norfolk. |
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