Record Details

NHER Number:11694
Type of record:Monument
Name:Cropmarks of a double ring ditch

Summary

A double ring ditch cropmark, probably relating to a Bronze Age round barrow, is visible on aerial photographs.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 6922 1968
Map Sheet:TF61NE
Parish:LEZIATE, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Pennanular enclosure with entrance to east.
See (S1).
E. Rose (NAU), 19 October 1976.

Part of large scatter NHER 28351.
E. Rose (NAU).

January 2008. Norfolk NMP
A cropmark of a double ring ditch, probably relating to a Bronze Age round barrow, is visible on aerial photographs (S2-S5). The inner ditch is slightly sub-circular in plan with a 2m wide ditch and an external diameter of 27m. It is almost completely visible as a cropmark, with only a 7.5m wide break present in its southeast side. The outer ditch is also 2m wide with an external diameter of approximately 35m. A large section of the southeast side of the outer ring ditch is not visible as a cropmark. It is likely that the ring ditch is of Bronze Age date and that it relates to a round barrow. An earthwork round barrow, with a similar diameter to the inner ring ditch cropmark, is present 250m to the north (NHER 3381).
J. Albone (NMP), 23 January 2008.

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1994. Cropmark plot.
<S2>Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1975. NHER TF 6919A (NLA 16/ADM9) 16-JUL-1975.
<S3>Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1977. NHER TF 6919B (NLA 49/AAJX7) 28-JUL-1977.
<S4>Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1977. NHER TF 6919D-E (NLA 49/AJX9-10) 28-JUL-1977.
<S5>Vertical Aerial Photograph: Meridian Airmaps Limited. 1976. MAL 76044 21 13-JUN-1976 (NMR).

Related records

28351Part of: Multi-period finds from Bawsey Golf Course (south) (Find Spot)
3381Related to: Bronze Age bowl barrow, Leziate Heath (Monument)

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