Norfolk Heritage Explorer

Location

Full description

Ring ditch on RAF air photographs.
Information from A. Lawson (NAU).

No sign in young cereal.
A. Lawson (NAU), March 1976.

February 2010. Geophysical Survey.
Magnetometer survey of proposed Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm onshore electrical connection sub-station site.
The ring ditch was not detected during this survey but it is possible that geological conditions may have masked any magnetic anomalies of archaeological origin or deep ploughing might have significantly degraded the site.
See report (S1) and NHER 60615 for further details.
S. Howard (HES), 24 June 2011.

October 2023. Wendling Beck and Fransham Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AIM) Project.
The cropmarks of a ring ditch (see above) of an unknown date are seen on aerial photographs (S2-S4). The feature appears to show as a cropmark bank rather than as a ditch on S2-S4. On the sources consulted by the project, the feature was only visible on aerial photographs from 1946 (S2-S4). The ring ditch was also not recorded during a previous geophysical survey ahead of the proposed Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm onshore electrical connection sub-station site (see above). It is therefore possible that the feature could be natural in origin, a product of modern agriculture or possibly relating to a former embanked post medieval extractive pit. However, an archaeological origin for the feature cannot be ruled out. The monument polygon has been updated to the location of the feature as seen on S2-S3.
J. Powell (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 04 October 2023

Monument Types

• RING DITCH (Unknown date)
• RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
• EXTRACTIVE PIT? (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• RING DITCH (Post Medieval - 1540 AD? to 1900 AD?)
• RING DITCH (Early 20th Century to 21st Century - 1901 AD? to 2050 AD?)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

Related records - none

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• Parish Summary: Necton (Parish Summary)