Record Details
| NHER Number: | 50813 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of possible Bronze Age ring ditch |
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Summary
A possible Bronze Age ring ditch is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It appears to form part of a linear round barrow cemetery (NHER 50816), forming an alignment with other probable prehistoric ring ditches and other features to its northwest and southeast. The cropmarks, however, are not entirely convincing, and the possibility that they are of non-archaeological origin, or represent a different phase of activity, cannot be ruled out.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2751 1565 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG21NE |
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| Parish: | WROXHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
January 2008. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks described below were previously recorded as part of NHER 36447.
A possible ring ditch is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs (S1)-(S2), centred at TG 2751 1565. It could represent the site of a Bronze Age round barrow, as it appears to form part of a linear barrow cemetery (NHER 50816) with cropmark features to its northwest and southeast. At the same time, the cropmarks are not entirely convincing, and the possibility that they are of non-archaeological origin, or represent a different phase of activity, cannot be ruled out.
The ring ditch is visible only intermittently, but appears to be decidedly oval in plan. Too little is visible for any meaningful dimensions to be recorded. If it is a prehistoric funerary site, a pit-like cropmark located within it, southeast of centre, may have held an associated burial or votive deposit; however, this mark could instead be a product of the underlying geology.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 22 January 2008.
Monument Types
- PIT? (Unknown date)
- RING DITCH? (Unknown date)
- BURIAL? (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- PIT? (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
- 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
| <S1> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1990. OS/90224 146-7 31-JUL-1990 (NMR). |
| <S2> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1996. NHER TG 2715H, K-L (NLA 373/JBF7, 9-10) 19-JUL-1996. |
Related records
| 50816 | Part of: Site of probable Bronze Age linear barrow cemetery (Monument) |
| 50815 | Related to: Site of possible Neolithic or Bronze Age C-shaped hengiform enclosure (Monument) |
| 36447 | Related to: Site of probable Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 50814 | Related to: Site of probable Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |