Record Details
| NHER Number: | 4071 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Three probable Bronze Age ring ditches |
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Summary
Three ring ditches are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. They are probably the remains of flattened Bronze Age barrows.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 8608 1979 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF81NE |
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| Parish: | LITCHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1959. St Joseph aerial photograph.
Three ring ditches in arable field - probably destroyed barrows of the adjacent Weasenham group.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).
No sign in field of young cereal.
A.J. Lawson (NAU), 16 March 1976.
See copy of aerial photograph (S1) in file.
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
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Serial: 1960. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1960. No 7. p 4. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Litcham. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Aerial Photograph: St. Joseph, J.K.. 1959. TF 8619 K; ZP51. |
Related records
| 56103 | Part of: Bronze Age Barrow Cemetery, Weasenham Heath (Landscape) |