Norfolk Heritage Explorer

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December 2013 and January 2014. Site visits.
A surviving low bank between TL 82444 87627 and TL 82142 87918. About 4m wide and up to 0.5m high.
Although it could be of some age, the fact it is on the same alignment as a track which does not appear on the tithe map suggests it could be recent.
D. Robertson (HES), 31 July 2014 and 27 July 2015.

August 2014. Breaking New Ground field visit. HA 5.
The bank continues to the east, beyond TL 82444 87627, the most easterly extent recorded in 2013-14. In places it is up to 0.8m tall.
This bank appears to be on the southern boundary of Santon Warren. As a result, it may have been constructed as a warren boundary bank.
D. Robertson (HES), 27 July 2015.

February 2018. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The site has been expanded to include the bank described above along with a parallel bank approximately 15m to the south, and a short length of seemingly associated bank to the north of its eastern end [1]. The banks are all visible as earthworks on imagery from a 2015 lidar survey (S1) and probably still survive. As suggested above, they may mark the southern boundary of Santon warren. As such, a medieval to post-medieval date is likely; however, as they follow a modern track and plantation edge, a partial or wholly modern origin cannot be ruled out. NHER 61100 to the northwest, and NHER 62066 to the east, are likely to be continuations of the same boundary. The banks may also relate to some of the features recorded to the north as part of NHER 62073.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 4 February 2018.

Monument Types

• BANK (EARTHWORK) (Unknown date)
• BOUNDARY BANK (Unknown date)
• BOUNDARY BANK (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD? to 1900 AD?)
• RABBIT WARREN? (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status - none

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