Post-medieval field boundaries at land at Walpole Farm (EHER 48595)

A 2014 archaeological evaluation found evidence of post-medieval features in the form of old field boundaries.

2014. Trial trenching. Parts of three late post-medieval to modern boundary ditches were uncovered. These ditches align with field boundaries visible on 19th and 20th century cartographic sources. In on-site discussions, the farmer maintained that these ditches were backfilled around 40 years ago. The evaluation also recorded a small number of shallow, late post-medieval to modern ditches in the south-western corner of the site. <1> Four residual/unstratified prehistoric worked flints were recovered. These artefacts indicate a low level of prehistoric activity in the region of the site, but no prehistoric features were uncovered by the evaluation.