Monument record 4542 - Moorhead Lane Cropmark Enclosure

<1> Huntings Surveys Ltd, 1971-1973, 1971-1973 County Survey, run 37, no.1137, 15/05/1973 (Aerial Photograph). SCH4881.

This aerial photograph shows a possible cropmark defining a sub oval enclosure.

<2> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R, 06/02/2024 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

The cropmarks are parch-marks, opposed to the negative cropmarks apparent on this photograph from the field drainage in this area, which pass through this suggested enclosure. There are small sub-circular negative cropmarks which are possibly natural in origin. The parch-mark suggests a bank with a ditch either side. The south-eastern side is indistinct, suggesting disturbance or greater complexity here. There is a good posibility that this parch-mark is the product of agricultural activity, rather than of subsurface archaeological remains. The 1973 photograph (and later images) suggest that therer may be a paleo-channel to the west and east of the enclosure. It may also sit in a slight depression or change in the geology.