Record Details
NHER Number: | 26942 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | Possible Bronze Age ring ditch |
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Summary
A possibly Bronze Age ring ditch is visible on 1946 aerial photographs.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TF 6780 4117 |
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Map Sheet: | TF64SE |
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Parish: | HUNSTANTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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| xOLD HUNSTANTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
June 2001. Norfolk NMP.
Cropmark of a possible ring ditch visible on 1946 RAF photographs (S1). The feature is bisected by the field/parish boundary and the western side is showing much more clearly than the eastern. Half of the mark appears to be in a cricket lawn, which does shed some doubt onto its archaeological origin; the mark may turn out to be fungal. Although the ring seems to continue into the arable crop in the adjacent field. If this is a ring ditch of archaeological origin, then its size, 35m in diameter, is similar to other proved Bronze Age burial mounds in the area (for example NHER 1263)
S. Massey (NMP), 27 June 2001.
Monument Types
- RING DITCH (Unknown date)
- RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
<S1> | Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1571 4096-7 07-JUN-1946 (Norfolk SMR TF 6740A, TF 6840A). |
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