Record Details

NHER Number:38715
Type of record:Monument
Name:Possible Bronze Age ring ditch or enclosure

Summary

A cropmark of an incomplete ring ditch or curvilinear enclosure is visible on aerial photographs.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 35884 29599
Map Sheet:TG32NE
Parish:EAST RUSTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

August 2004. Norfolk NMP.
A cropmark of an incomplete ring ditch or curvilinear enclosure is visible on aerial photographs (S1). This cropmark was previously recorded as part of NHER 21774. The ring ditch or enclosure is centred on TG35882960 and measures 24m by 10m although its northern side is not visible. This cropmark could be a ring ditch of a Bronze Age round barrow or part of a curvilinear enclosure of possible Neolithic, Bronze Age or Iron Age date. Further ring ditch cropmarks are located to the northeast and southeast (NHER 38703, 38704).
(S1).
J. Albone (NMP), 16 August 2004.

Monument Types

  • ENCLOSURE (Undated)
  • RING DITCH (Undated)
  • CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • 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

<S1>Oblique Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. 1976. NHER TG 3529A (CUCAP BYJ55) 29-JUN-1976.

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