Record Details

NHER Number:18151
Type of record:Monument
Name:Cropmark of ring ditch

Summary

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

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 5118 1394
Map Sheet:TG51SW
Parish:ORMESBY ST MARGARET WITH SCRATBY, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

Full description

9 June 1980. NAU air photography.
Positive cropmarks.
1 double concentric ring ditch.
D. Edwards (NAU) 8 June 1982.

June 2005. Norfolk NMP.
A cropmark of a double concentric ring ditch, probably a Bronze Age round barrow, is visible on aerial photographs (S1-6). The grid reference of this cropmark has been adjusted from TG 511 139 to TG 5118 1395. Both the inner and outer ring ditches are sub-circular in plan and have narrow ditches. The outer ditch has an external diameter of 21m with the inner ditch measuring 10m in diameter. Linear ditches extend to the northwest and southeast of the outer ring ditch (NHER 27400). It is likely that these are later field boundaries, which were aligned on the round barrow when it was still an extant monument. The ring ditch cropmark is situated on a relatively flat area of ground at a height of c.12m OD.
J. Albone (NMP), 14 June 2005

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.
---Fiche: Exists.
<S1>Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A.. 1980. NHER TG 5113D-E (NLA 78/ANK13-14) 09-JUN-1980.
<S2>Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A.. 1980. NHER TG 5113F (NLA 78/ANK21) 09-JUN-1980.
<S3>Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A.. 1980. NHER TG 5113G-H (NLA 79/ANP6-7) 09-JUN-1980.
<S4>Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A.. 1980. NHER TG 5113J (NLA 80/ANN6) 09-JUN-1980.
<S5>Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1980. OS/97613 059-060 01-JUN-1997.
<S6>Oblique Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. 1976. CUCAP BYB89 24-JUN-1976.

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