Record Details
| NHER Number: | 31638 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Three or four Bronze Age ring ditches |
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Summary
Cropmarks visible on aerial photographs from 1956 indicate three or four ring ditches which have been identified as Bronze Age in date.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 3197 0935 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG30NW |
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| Parish: | POSTWICK WITH WITTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
16 January 1956. RAF aerial photography.
Three or four ring ditches.
Reported by MARS project (S1). Photo (S2) not seen by NLA.
E. Rose (NLA), 7 December 1995.
June 2007.
No ring ditches were visible in 1964 RAF aerial photography (S3) examined by the National Mapping Program. Cropmarks in this area were limited to field boundaries of possible medieval to post medieval date (NHER 49562).
H. Hamilton (NLA), 28 November 2008.
September 2006.
Google Earth (S4) shows cropmarks of 1 ring ditch.
D. Lefeuvre (HES), 21 February 2011.
Monument Types
- RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Document: Monuments at Risk Survey Report. |
| <S2> | Aerial Photograph: F21 540/1778-0020. |
| <S3> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1964. RAF 58/6402 (F21) 0026-8 06-JUL-1964 (NMR). |
| <S4> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Google Earth. ? - present. Google Earth Orthophotographs. https://earth.google.com/web. 11-SEP-2006 Accessed 21-FEB-2011. |
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