Record Details
| NHER Number: | 16062 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Two possible Bronze Age ring ditches |
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Summary
The cropmarks of two ring ditches, probably representing the remains of Bronze Age round barrows or mortuary enclosures, are visible on aerial photographs to the north of the Harford Park and Ride site.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2177 0417 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG20SW |
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| Parish: | KESWICK, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
17 April 1980. NAU air photography (S1).
Cropmarks of two ring ditches, one complete and possibly overlaid by funnel-type entrance trackway (2173 0402) and part of a second ring ditch (2181 0417).
D. Edwards (NAU), 29 April 1980.
This site is now contained within the metal detecting scatter NHER 25708.
E. Rose (NAU), February 1990.
The trackways previously recorded under this number are now within NHER 52154-5.
March 2009. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks of two ring ditches, probably representing the remains of Bronze Age round barrows or mortuary enclosures, are visible on aerial photographs to the north of the Harford Park and Ride site (S1-S3). A semi-circular ditch, 43m across, is likely to represent the remains of a ring ditch, although it is feasible that it originally semi-circular in shape. To the east is another possible ring ditch, 31.5m across, again incomplete and with a possible tail leading to the north, although it is possible that this is the remains of an oval barrow. It is possible that both of these sites relate to later Neolithic to early Bronze Age mortuary enclosures and or barrows. Although the overall size of these monuments is consistent with those Bronze Age round barrows excavated at the nearby Harford Farm site (NHER 52280), but these were all completely circular in shape.
S. Horlock (NMP), 24 March 2009.
Monument Types
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE? (Unknown date)
- GRAVE? (Unknown date)
- MORTUARY ENCLOSURE? (Unknown date)
- OVAL BARROW (Unknown date)
- PIT (Unknown date)
- RING DITCH? (Unknown date)
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE? (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
- MORTUARY ENCLOSURE? (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
- OVAL BARROW (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE? (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
- GRAVE? (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
- MORTUARY ENCLOSURE? (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
- OVAL BARROW (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
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.. 1980. NHER TG 2104D-E (NLA 74/AMV9-10) 17-APR-1980. |
| <S2> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.. 1978. NHER TG 2104B-C (NLA 65/AME8-9) 08-JUN-1978. |
| <S3> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D. A. (NLA). 1980. NHER TG 2204AZ (NLA 84/ANW18) 16-JUN-1980. |
Related records
| 25708 | Related to: Multi-period finds (Find Spot) |
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