Monument record STN 116 - Possible post medieval water meadows and/or osier beds

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Summary

A complex arrangement of ditches or drains, visible as earthworks on imagery from a 2015 lidar survey and located on the southern bank of the Little Ouse, may represent former water meadows or osier beds of post medieval date.

Location

Grid reference Centred TL 8482 8689 (320m by 226m)
Map sheet TL88NW
Civil Parish SANTON DOWNHAM, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK

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Full Description

November 2017. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
A complex arrangement of ditches or drains, visible as earthworks on imagery from a 2015 lidar survey (S1) and located on the southern bank of the Little Ouse, may represent former water meadows and/or osier beds of post medieval date. The earthworks have also been noted as possible water meadows by Professor Tom Williamson of University of East Anglia (personal communication). Two blocks are evident, both similar in nature although different in layout, divided by the county and parish boundary; in Norfolk they are recorded as NHER 61566. Instead of representing water meadows, the earthworks could relate to the osier bed referred to in documents relating to Thetford warren (S2; information from A. Mason). Alternatively, the earthworks could simply relate to land drainage, perhaps undertaken in advance of the area being planted with conifers.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 27th November 2017.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <S1> LIDAR Airborne Survey: LIDAR airborne survey. LIDAR Santon Forest Research 0.5m DTM 15-JUL-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial).
  • <S2> Source Unchecked: Norfolk Record Office: MC 114/2/1, 583X4 - Draft leases and agreements relating to various properties in Thetford, Brandon, and Santon Downham 1869-1895 Estates of William Dalziel Mackenzie.

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Record last edited

Mar 4 2019 9:15AM

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