Monument record SUE 003 - Site of circular post medieval plantation boundary

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Summary

A circular post medieval plantation boundary is visible as the cropmark of a widely-spaced double ring ditch on aerial photographs and depicted on historic Ordnance Survey maps. Together with a second circular plantation, SUE 027 111m to the southwest, it formed part of a formal, compartmentalised part of Sudbourne Common, perhaps reflecting the use of the area for shooting in the 19th century.

Location

Grid reference	Centred TM 4178 5350 (80m by 81m)
Map sheet	TM45SW
Civil Parish	SUDBOURNE, SUFFOLK COASTAL, SUFFOLK

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Full Description

Circular plantation site, possibly originally ring ditch. Marked on OS 1: 10560 map provisional edition, very little remaining shown on 1:10000 1978. Shown as ?mound? on 1st edition OS map (S1).
Shown as two concentric ring ditches, 50 & 25m diameter, or small circular enclosure, with central mark (circa 5m diameter).

August 2015. Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty National Mapping Programme.
The circular post medieval plantation boundary described above is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (S2)-(S3) and depicted on historic Ordnance Survey maps (S4). Together with a second circular plantation, SUE 027 111m to the southwest, it formed part of a formal, compartmentalised part of Sudbourne Common, perhaps reflecting the use of the area for shooting in the 19th century (S6). There is no evidence of a ring ditch or enclosure pre-dating the enclosure. The possible ‘mound’ shown on the Ordnance Survey 1st edition map lies 96m to the west, and is recorded separately as SUE 122.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 3rd August 2015.

Sources/Archives (6)

<S1> SSF12416 (No record type): OS, 1 inch map (1st ed reprint), sheet 55, Eye, 1980 of 1837 map.
<M1> SSF41495 (No record type): AP: ACY 11.
<S2> SSF55746 Oblique Aerial Photograph: Oblique aerial photograph. NMR 23560/19-23 07-JUN-2004 (EHA Original Print).
<S3> SSF55745 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Vertical aerial photograph. EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 2000 ACCESSED 03-AUG-2015 (Digital).
<S4> SSX55043 Map: Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey Map. Ordnance Survey First Edition Map.
<S5> SSF55948 Web Page: http://www.wallacecollection.org/thecollection/historyofthecollection/otherhertfordhousesandconnection/england.

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Related Events/Activities (1)

Event - Interpretation: TM45SW. Mapping Block 2: Iken to Sudbourne. NMP National Mapping Programme Project for Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (Ref: English Heritage Project No. 7085) (ESF23194)

Record last edited

Dec 10 2015 11:49AM