Record Details

NHER Number:12784
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of ring ditch

Summary

This is the site of a ring ditch, visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The ring ditch may be the remains of a Bronze Age barrow, but is very large, suggesting another unknown purpose.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 1756 2795
Map Sheet:TG12NE
Parish:BLICKLING, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

Huge ring ditch, seemingly too large for a normal barrow, visible on NAU aerial photography.
Located E. Rose (NAU) 12 September 1977.

Monument Types

  • RING DITCH (Undated)
  • SITE (Undated)
  • RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • SITE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Aerial Photograph: TG 1727C-D.
---Unpublished Report: Wade-Martins, P. and Griffiths, E. 1987. The Archaeology and Historic Landscape Features of the Blickling Estate.
---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 12 NE 18.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

Related records - none

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