Record Details
| NHER Number: | 54535 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Earthwork banks and ditches |
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Summary
Fragmentary banks and ditches are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs on land to the south of the Little Ouse River, Thetford. These features may represent medieval to post medieval drainage of the area into the Little Ouse River, as there appear to be a number of more recent drainage features in the area.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 8546 8320 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL88SE |
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| Parish: | THETFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
December 2010. Norfolk NMP.
Fragmentary banks and ditches are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs on land to the south of the Little Ouse River, Thetford.
They are centred on TL 8546 8319, and may represent medieval to post medieval drainage of the area into the Little Ouse River, as there appear to be a number of more recent drainage features in the area.
E. Bales (NMP), 14 Dec 2010.
Monument Types
- BANK (EARTHWORK) (Unknown date)
- DITCH (Unknown date)
- DRAINAGE DITCH? (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD? to 1900 AD?)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 3G/TUD/UK/59 5387-8 05-FEB-1946 (NMR). |
| <S2> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1589 1410 21-JUN-1946 (NHER TL8582B). |
| <S3> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Meridian Airmaps Limited. 1967. MAL/67090 154-5 15-NOV-1967 (NMR). |
Related records
| 61542 | Part of: Extensive remains of boundaries, enclosures, trackways and cultivation/plantation ridges across Thetford Warren (Monument) |