Record Details

NHER Number:29826
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of ring ditch

Summary

A ring ditch, probably dating from the Bronze Age, is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. Other linear features correspond to post medieval field boundaries shown on Ordnance Survey maps.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 9978 0455
Map Sheet:TF90SE
Parish:CRANWORTH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

13 June 1989. NAU air photography.
Ring ditch.

25 June 1996. NLA air photography.
Cropmark of ring ditch still visible.
Location however, is slightly different to where previously recorded, centred at NGR TF99730450.
There are also various linear fetures showing as cropmarks, some of which are old field boundaries marked on (S1).
H. Clare (NLA), 4 September 2001.

Monument Types

  • FIELD BOUNDARY (Unknown date)
  • LINEAR FEATURE (Unknown date)
  • RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • SITE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Aerial Photograph: TF 9904 A-D.
---Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1996. TF 9904E - G.
<1>Map: Ordnance Survey. 1902-7. Ordnance Survey 25 inch 2nd edition (revised 1902-7).

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