Monument record STN 186 - Narrow, undated linear features, perhaps relating to a post medieval plantation

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Summary

Some narrow, parallel banks and ditches of unknown date are visible as earthworks on imagery from a lidar survey flown in 2015. Their orientation is at odds with that of the plantations visible on 1940s and modern aerial photographs, and with the boundaries shown on a late 19th century Ordnance Survey map, but they could instead relate to an earlier, post medieval plantation.

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Civil Parish SANTON DOWNHAM, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK

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January 2018. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
Some narrow, parallel banks and ditches of unknown date are visible as earthworks on imagery from a lidar survey flown in 2015 (S1). They look like features related to forestry; however, their orientation is at odds with that of the plantations visible on 1940s and modern aerial photographs, and with the boundaries shown on the Ordnance Survey 1st edition 6 inch map (S2). They could instead relate to an earlier, post medieval plantation, or derive from some other kind of activity; they could equally be of modern origin. Given the recent date of the lidar survey, it is likely that the earthworks still survive.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 31st January 2018.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <S1> LIDAR Airborne Survey: LIDAR airborne survey. LIDAR Thetford Forest Research 0.5m DTM 17-JUL-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial).
  • <S2> Map: Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey Map. Ordnance Survey 1st edition 6 inch map.

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Record last edited

Feb 23 2018 2:31PM

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