Record Details
| NHER Number: | 13018 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Cropmark of a Late Iron Age or Roman enclosure |
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Summary
A square enclosure with rounded corners is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The enclosure probably dates to the Late Iron Age or the Roman period, and formed part of a system of defensive enclosures in northwest Norfolk.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 7894 2029 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF72SE |
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| Parish: | GREAT MASSINGHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Small square enclosure cropmark, straight sided with rounded corners.
Near linear marks of old field boundaries?
Suggested as Roman signal station by D. Edwards (NAU)
Grid reference corrected 28 November 1980 by J. Bown (NAU).
January 2006.
This is a 'Thornham style' enclosure, see (S1). Similar enclosures have been excavated at Thornham (NHER 1308), Warham Burrows (NHER 1827) and Wighton (NHER 2072). These enclosures, along with at least five others, appear to be part of a coherent tradition of defensive planning in the Late Iron Age or Roman period.
S. Spooner (NLA) 10 January 2006
Monument Types
- FIELD BOUNDARY (Unknown date)
- SITE (Unknown date)
- SITE (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 409 AD)
- SQUARE ENCLOSURE (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 409 AD)
- SIGNAL STATION (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
- SHINE
- Higher Level Stewardship
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: TF 7820A. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Article in Monograph: Gregory, T. 1986. Enclosures of 'Thornham' Type in Norfolk. Excavations at Thornham, Warham, Wighton and Caistor St. Edmund, Norfolk. Gregory, T. and Gurney, D.. EAA No 30 pp 32-35. |
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