Record Details
| NHER Number: | 27349 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Probable Bronze Age ring ditch |
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Summary
A ring ditch, probably the remains of a Bronze Age round barrow, is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It forms part of a dispersed barrow cemetery (NHER 27342).
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 4831 1646 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG41NE |
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| Parish: | HEMSBY, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK |
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Full description
May 2005. Norfolk NMP.
A ring ditch is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (S1) to (S4), centred at TG 4831 1646. It is most likely to be the site of a Bronze Age round barrow, part of barrow cemetery NHER 27342. It is roughly circular in shape and measures approximately 17m in diameter. A break in the ditch on its western side is as likely to be caused by the cropmark being masked as by the presence of a genuine causeway. The ring ditch is overlain by (or underlies), and in one case is respected by, several linear ditches. These form part of a field system of probable Bronze Age date (NHER 27338), which presumably dates to later in the Bronze Age than the barrow cemetery. An off centre pit within the ring ditch may mark an associated burial.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 10 May 2005.
Monument Types
- PIT (Unknown date)
- RING DITCH (Unknown date)
- GRAVE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- PIT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1634 1030-1 09-JUL-1946 (NHER TG 4716C, TG 4816A). |
| <S2> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. 1973. CUCAP (BOB70-1) 05-JUL-1973. |
| <S3> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1979. NHER TG 4816A-C (NLA 72/AMR12-14) 17-JUL-1979. |
| <S4> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. 1980. CUCAP (CMK61) 03-JUL-1980. |
Related records
| 27342 | Part of: Probable Bronze Age round barrow cemetery (Monument) |