Site Event/Activity record ESF26143 - Survey by The Breckland Society - The Warrens of Breckland

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Location

Location Breckland
Grid reference Centred TL 7738 7854 (16862m by 17510m)
Map sheet TL77NE
Civil Parish BARTON MILLS, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK
Civil Parish BRANDON, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK
Civil Parish ELVEDEN, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK
Civil Parish ERISWELL, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK
Civil Parish LAKENHEATH, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK
Civil Parish MILDENHALL, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK
Civil Parish SANTON DOWNHAM, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK
Civil Parish CULFORD, ST EDMUNDSBURY, SUFFOLK
Civil Parish WORDWELL, ST EDMUNDSBURY, SUFFOLK
Civil Parish WANGFORD WITH HENHAM, WAVENEY, SUFFOLK

Technique(s)

Organisation

The Breckland Society

Date

Not recorded.

Map

Description

In March 2008, the Breckland Society was awarded a grant by English Heritage to research the archaeological archival evidence of the managed rabbit warrens of the Norfolk and Suffolk Brecks. Fieldwork and soite visits, archival research and oral history were carried out. Volunteers were trained. Fieldwork began in autumn, winter 2008 and early spring 2009. The teams of volunteers traced the perimeter boundaries of their allocated warrens, recording the condition, height and width of visible banks as well as searching for any evidence of internal banks and lodge sites. Field work forms were completed and photographic evidence (S1).

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <S1> Bibliographic reference: The Breckland Society. 2010. The Warrens of Breckland: A Survey by The Breckland Society.

Related Monuments/Buildings (36)

  • Boundaries relating to Wangford Warren (Monument)
  • Boundary banks for the medieval to post medieval Downham High Warren (Monument)
  • Boundary banks on west side of Elveden Warren (Monument)
  • Brandon Warren; medieval to modern rabbit warren (Monument)
  • Earthwork Bank, Icklingham Furze, Eriswell Warren (Monument)
  • Earthwork banks, northern boundary, Elveden Warren (Monument)
  • Earthwork enclosure, Lakenheath Warren (Monument)
  • Earthwork enclosure, Lakenheath Warren (Monument)
  • Elveden Rabbit Warren (Monument)
  • Eriswell Warren (Monument)
  • High Lodge Farm; High Lodge; Downham Lodge (Monument)
  • High Lodge, Eriswell Warren (Monument)
  • Lakenheath Rabbit Warren (Monument)
  • Lower Lodge (1783); Little Lodge (1813) (Monument)
  • Mildenhall Warren; Mildenhall Woods (Monument)
  • Old Keepers Lodge, W of High Lodge Farm, Mildenhall Warren. (Building)
  • Possible boundary of Santon Downham Warren (Monument)
  • Possible double bank earthworks, Eriswell Warren. (Monument)
  • Possible Rabbit Warren, Culford (Monument)
  • Possible site of Warrener's Lodge, Little Lodge Farm (Monument)
  • Possible Warrener's Lodge (1853), Lakenheath Warren (Monument)
  • Possible Warrener's Lodge, Culford Lodge, Lodge Farm (Monument)
  • Probable medieval to post medieval boundary bank relating to Thetford Warren (Monument)
  • Probable medieval to post medieval boundary bank relating to Thetford Warren (Monument)
  • Red Lodge Warren (Monument)
  • Redlodge Warrener's Lodge; Red Lodge (PH) (Building)
  • Site of second warrener's lodge, Three Hillls, Mildenhall Warren (Monument)
  • Site of Warrener's lodge and possible rabbit warren (Monument)
  • Spinks Lodge, Warrener's Lodge, Elveden Warren (Monument)
  • 'The Warren Lodge' (1866) (Building)
  • Wangford Lodge (1783); Shakers Lodge (Monument)
  • Wangford Warren (Monument)
  • Warren Lodge; High Lodge, Lakenheath Warren (Monument)
  • Warrener's Lodge, Brandon Warren (Monument)
  • Wordwell Lodge, Wordwell Warren (Monument)
  • Wordwell Warren; Kings Forest (Monument)

Record last edited

May 8 2018 10:15AM

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