Record Details
NHER Number: | 21285 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | Possible Bronze Age ring ditch and post medieval trackway |
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Summary
1984 aerial photography shows the cropmarks of a ring ditch crossed by a post medieval trackway.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TF 705 006 |
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Map Sheet: | TF70SW |
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Parish: | STOKE FERRY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
19 July 1984. NAU air photography. Positive cropmarks. Ring ditch and pair of parallel ditches aligned thereupon; trackway?
D.A. Edwards (NAU), 22 March 1985.
The parallel ditches are a road or track still in use until recent years; 6 inch Ordnance Survey map still shows north end where it leaves present road.
E. Rose (NAU), 25 April 1985
January 1992. Air photograph re-examined by NLA in advance of planning application.
Feature is in fact to north of bypass line, but small and faint.
Proposed tree planting is to be arranged to avoid it.
Plot in file
E. Rose (NLA), 21 January 1991
Monument Types
- DITCH (Unknown date)
- RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- SITE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- TRACKWAY (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
--- | Aerial Photograph: TF7000A-B. |
--- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
--- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
Related records - none
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