Monument record LKD 099 - A large area of medieval to post medieval banks and ditches.

December 2019. Breckland National Mapping Programme.
A large area of medieval to post medieval banks and ditches are seen as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs (S1-S5). The banks and ditches most likely relate to a series of medieval to post medieval boundaries, field boundaries, trackways and drainage. It is also possible that some of the ditch features may relate to natural features and some of the banks may relate to mounded earth from the clearing out of the drainage ditches. Many of the mapped features surround, and could be associated with, Hall Farm, a mid-19th century planned farm (SHER LKD 058). A large roughly U shaped ditch can be seen at TL 7988 70522 which could possibly relate to a medieval to post medieval enclosure. Furthermore, a large wide bank with ditches either side can be seen at TL 7976 7077 which may relate to a possible post medieval flood defence or water management feature. It is possible, although less likely, that the feature may relate to a medieval to post medieval causewayed trackway. The two curved ditches at TL 8033 7057 most likely relate to wide drainage ditches rather than moat features as they are different in form to other moats mapped by the Breckland National Mapping Programme/Aerial Investigation and Mapping survey across the project area. Some of the large drainage ditches are also mapped on the First Edition Ordnance Survey map (S6). The majority of the features can be seen as earthworks in the 1940s (S1-S2) and have been mostly levelled by the 1970s (S3) with some of the earthworks removed by gravel extraction. Some of the large drainage ditches can be seen as earthworks on the visualised lidar (S5) data with some of the ditches showing as cropmarks on recent aerial photographs (S4). The banks and ditches are in very close proximity to medieval to post medieval settlement remains to the southwest (LKD 025).
J. Powell (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 4th December 2019.