Record Details
| NHER Number: | 38467 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Cropmark of possible Neolithic or Bronze Age enclosure |
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Summary
A curvilinear ditch, perhaps part of a ring ditch or enclosure of Neolithic or Bronze Age date, is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. Its location in the corner of a field, immediately to the south of a modern farm, however, suggests that it might equally be a post medieval or modern agricultural enclosure.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2000 3553 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG23NW |
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| Parish: | HANWORTH, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
February 2004, Norfolk NMP
A curvilinear ditch, perhaps part of a rather irregularly shaped ring ditch or small enclosure, is visible as a cropmark on oblique aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 2001 3553. It is located in close proximity to a number of probable Bronze Age round barrows, including a linear barrow cemetery 150m to its southeast (NHER 38448). A number of Neolithic ceremonial sites are also known from the area (e.g. NHER 18190). It therefore seems possible that the ditch forms part of a barrow or enclosure of Neolithic or Bronze Age date.
Only the eastern half of the postulated ring ditch or enclosure is visible as a cropmark (S1). This measures 25m wide and at least 27m long.
The enclosure lies in the corner of a field, 5m to the south of a modern farm building which forms part of a farm that has existed since at least the 19th century (S2). It is therefore also plausible that the ditch represents part of a post medieval or modern agricultural feature, such as a stock enclosure.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 23 February 2004
Monument Types
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE (Unknown date)
- DITCHED ENCLOSURE (Unknown date)
- RING DITCH (Unknown date)
- BARROW (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- DITCHED ENCLOSURE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- RING DITCH (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- DITCHED ENCLOSURE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A.. 1992. NHER TG 2035AM (NLA 311/GLY8) 15-JUL-1992. |
| <S2> | Map: Bryant, A.. 1826. Bryant's Map of Norfolk. |
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