Record Details

NHER Number:11587
Type of record:Monument
Name:Cropmark of a possible Bronze Age ring ditch

Summary

A cropmark of a ring ditch, probably a Bronze Age round barrow, is visible on aerial photographs of this area. This cropmark has previously been wrongly located and has been duplicated by other NHER records. It forms part of a large barrow cemetery (NHER 44844).

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 3426 9314
Map Sheet:TM39SW
Parish:BROOME, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1976.
Ring ditch, southwest of group previously recorded (NHER 10625, 10626 and 10627).
E. Rose (NAU).

July 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A cropmark of a ring ditch, probably a Bronze Age round barrow, is visible aerial photographs (S1-S15). This ring ditch has previously been wrongly located and its grid reference has been amended from TM 3421 9312 to TM 3426 9315. The ring ditch has a slightly sub-circular plan with a 1.5m wide ditch and an external diameter of 19m. It is likely that it is of Bronze Age date and that it relates to a round barrow. An undated oval enclosure cropmark with a lies immediately to the east of the ring ditch (NHER 44843). The ring ditch is situated on a small spur of ground at approximately 21m OD. It forms part of a dispersed barrow cemetery (NHER 44844).

In the past there has been considerable confusion over the location of the ring ditch cropmarks in this area. Where the same cropmark has been seen in different years, this has led to some duplication of HER records. The record of this ring ditch appears to have been duplicated by NHER 10625 or 10626 (probably the former) and those records are now redundant. See also NHER 17276.
J. Albone (NMP), 07 July 2006.

See (S16) for additional aerial photographs.
H. Hamilton (HES), 23 August 2013.

Monument Types

  • RING DITCH (Unknown date)
  • RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status

  • SHINE

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1975. NHER TM 3493A-B (NLA 23/ADX49-50) 31-JUL-1975.
<S2>Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1975. NHER TM 3493G-L (NLA 20/ADV5-9) 20-JUL-1975.
<S3>Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1976. NHER TM 3493N-P (NLA 31/AFN7-8) 08-JUL-1976.
<S4>Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1976. NHER TM 3493S-T (NLA 31/AFN11-12) 08-JUL-1976.
<S5>Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1976. NHER TM 3493U-V (NLA 31/AFN17-18) 08-JUL-1976.
<S6>Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1977. NHER TM 3493Y-AA (NLA 47/AJH17-19) 21-JUL-1977.
<S7>Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1976. NHER TM 3493AK-AP (NLA 154/AXH8-9, 12-3, 16) 08-JUL-1976.
<S8>Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1986. NHER TM 3493AT-AU (NLA 180/DBV28-9) 17-JUL-1986.
<S9>Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1989. NHER TM 3493AX-AZ (NLA 244/DRD13-5) 20-JUL-1989.
<S10>Oblique Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. 1973. CUCAP (BOB 13-5) 03-JUL-1973.
<S11>Oblique Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. 1975. CUCAP (BTC 58-62) 24-JUN-1975.
<S12>Oblique Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. 1975. CUCAP (BUY62-3) 24-JUL-1975.
<S13>Oblique Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. 1976. CUCAP (BZC60-1) 05-JUL-1976.
<S14>Oblique Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. 1977. CUCAP (CCR 7-9) 13-JUL-1977.
<S15>Oblique Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. 1979. CUCAP (CJB 49-51) 02-JUL-1979.
<S16>Oblique Aerial Photograph: Page, M.. 2010. NHER TM 3493 ABH-ABK (PAGE) 30-JUN-2010.

Related records

44844Part of: Bronze Age barrow cemetery (Monument)

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