Record Details

NHER Number:18098
Type of record:Monument
Name:Bronze Age ring ditch and site of post medieval windmill

Summary

1981 aerial photography revealed the cropmarks of a Bronze Age ring ditch. A cross-shaped mark adjacent to this indicates that the site was later used to position a post medieval windmill.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 1421 3776
Map Sheet:TG13NW
Parish:MATLASK, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

8 July 1981. NAU air photography. (S1).
Positive cropmarks.
Ring ditch and cropmark of adjacent features representing cross tree trenches of post mill.
Barrow mound with subsequent re use of adjacent site for mill.
D. Edwards (NAU), 19 April 1982.

Monument Types

  • BARROW (Undated)
  • SITE (Undated)
  • RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • RING DITCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • WINDMILL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status

  • SHINE

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1>Aerial Photograph: TG 1437A,B,C.

Related records - none

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