Record Details
| NHER Number: | 12776 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Bronze Age ring ditches and Neolithic flint working site |
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Summary
Aerial photographs from 1976 show the cropmarks of two, or possibly three ring ditches. Surface finds from 1980 to 1983 included a large quantity of Neolithic worked flint. This site lies just 130m to the southwest of Arminghall Henge (NHER 6100), and together they form a group along with a number of other ring ditches and flint working sites (NHER 9605, NHER 9592, NHER 9586).
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2383 0582 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG20NW |
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| Parish: | BIXLEY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
June 2010. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks described below are now recorded as NHER 52302 (the barrow cemetery as whole) and NHER 52303-5 (the individual barrows).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 24 June 2010.
29 June 1976. NAU air photography (AP1).
Cropmark of ring ditch, and fragment of another (confused by frost polygons).
E.Rose (NAU) 12 September 1977.
Spring 1980. Fieldwalking.
Found in drilled field (finder's Site 333c):
Neolithic/Bronze Age flint scatter comprising 12 flakes, 1 scraper, 1 blade core and 1 large blade.
Identified by compiled by A. J. Lawson (NAU) 10 September 1980.
Information from (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 2 April 2014.
1982-1983. Fieldwalking.
Further finds, retained by finder:
2 Mesolithic flint tranchet axes, 1 ?forgery of tranchet axe
1 flint blade core and 5 blades of unspecified date.
Also 300-400 other flints from same site not seen.
Identified and compiled by J. Wymer (NAU) 1 September 1983.
Information from (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 2 April 2014.
30 June 1990. NAU air photography.
A third ring ditch added to west end.
D.Edwards (NAU).
See 6 inch and 25 inch overlays. Map in file.
13 July 1993. NAU air photography (AP2).
Only two of the three recorded ring ditches are visible on the photographs.
S. Massey (NLA), 8 February 2001.
June 2010. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks described above are now recorded as NHER 52302 (the barrow cemetery as whole) and NHER 52303-5 (the individual barrows).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 24 June 2010.
Monument Types
- LITHIC WORKING SITE (Unknown date)
- RING DITCH (Unknown date)
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- LITHIC WORKING SITE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- BLADE CORE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- BLADE CORE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- TRANCHET AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- TRANCHET AXEHEAD? (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
- BLADE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- BLADE CORE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Aerial Photograph: TG2305 AFT-AFV,AEY-AFA,AGA,AGD,AGE. |
| <S2> | Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1993. TG 2405ADA, TG 2305AGH; TG 2306T - V. |
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