Record Details
| NHER Number: | 35499 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Cropmarks of circular features |
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Summary
A group of small circular features are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The features may date to the Roman period, and it has been suggested that the circles may have been caused by haystacks.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 5107 9551 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL59NW |
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| Parish: | WELNEY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1 July 1976. Ordnance Survey Air photography.
Positive cropmarks.
23 x circular enclosures. 'Riley' Circles.
See file.
D. Voisey (NLA), 22 February 1995.
Monument Types
- CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: OS 76-126-297. |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: OS 76-126-298. |
| --- | Article in Serial: Riley, D.N.. 1946. Groups of circles in the silt fens.. Antiquity. Vol XX, pp 150-153. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
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