Record Details

NHER Number:16154
Type of record:Monument
Name:Possible Bronze Age ring ditches and undated trackways and enclosures

Summary

1977 aerial photography shows the cropmarks of four ring ditches, including a double-ditched example, together with trackways and a possible enclosure complex.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 6318 0056
Map Sheet:TF60SW
Parish:RYSTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

28 July 1977. NAU air photography. Cropmarks.
Cropmarks of three ring ditches, first approximately 25m (6307 0068), second approximately 12m (6325 0059) and third approximately 15m (6324 0068) diameter respectively.

Double concentric ring ditch approximately 22m diameter 6313 0042).
Trackways running roughly north-to-south and east-to-west.
Associated linear cropmarks and possible enclosure complex.
D. Edwards (NAU), 2 May 1980.

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status

  • SHINE

Sources and further reading

---Aerial Photograph: TF6300 L-Q,U-Y,AQ-AZ.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

Related records - none

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