Monument record BRD 213 - Bank or banks of unknown but probable post medieval date

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Summary

A bank, or banks, or unknown but probable post medieval date is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs and (partially) on imagery from a 2015 lidar survey. It may relate to a boundary, or boundaries, depicted on 19th and 20th century Ordnance Survey maps.

Location

Grid reference Centred TL 7936 8426 (673m by 326m)
Map sheet TL78SE
Civil Parish BRANDON, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (6)

Full Description

Crescent shaped (or circular) mound at west end (TL 7937 8425) of broad curving bank (?) earthworks visible on 1940s RAF aerial photograph (W end on heath/arable, E end in young FC plantation). The bank would appear to correlate with blocks shown at the N end of arable field boundaries on 1920s OS map (not on earlier maps) south of Session Heath, so probably represent wind-blown deposits and are relatively recent. The mound, however, may be older and more significant. Site needs visiting to confirm survival and nature.

February 2018. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The crescent shaped or circular mound described above is now recorded as SHER BRD 316.
The bank or banks of probable post medieval to modern date described above are visible, at least partially, on aerial photographs (S1-S3) and on imagery from a recent lidar survey (S4). As it does not specify above which 1940s photographs the bank as originally identified on, it is not known whether this survey has included the original source. The bank or banks are not particularly clear on the aerial photographs, in part because they are under tree cover, and in part because they are poorly defined and it is not clear how many banks or boundaries are represented. The feature(s) may be as much a reflection of differences in planting and land use – related, as mentioned above, to the field and plantation boundaries shown on historical Ordnance Survey maps (S5-S6) – as it is to actual earthworks. The site now extends to what may be related boundaries recorded to the east (SHER BRD 317). The area of the bank(s) has been mapped by extent, and a length of earthwork bank visible on the lidar has been mapped individually.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 9th February 2018.

Sources/Archives (6)

  • <S1> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Vertical aerial photograph. EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 1945 ACCESSED 09-FEB-2018 (Digital).
  • <S2> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Vertical aerial photograph. RAF/CPE/UK/2021 RS 4061-4062 21-APR-1947 (HEA Original Print).
  • <S3> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Vertical aerial photograph. RAF/82/1204 F21 0011-0012 02-JUN-1955 (HEA Original Print).
  • <S4> LIDAR Airborne Survey: LIDAR airborne survey. LIDAR Wangford Forest Research 0.5m DTM 15-JUL-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial).
  • <S5> Map: Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey Map. Ordnance Survey 1st edition 6 inch map.
  • <S6> Map: Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey Map. Ordnance Survey 6 inch map revised 1926 published 1928 accessed at http://maps.nls.uk/view/101584229.

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Record last edited

Apr 23 2018 4:30PM

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