Record Details

NHER Number:11755
Type of record:Monument
Name:Cropmarks of a probable Bronze Age ring ditch

Summary

An undated ring ditch is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. It is probably the remains of a Bronze Age barrow. It may also be recorded as site NHER 3754.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 7473 1738
Map Sheet:TF71NW
Parish:EAST WALTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

RAF air photography.
Ring ditch on 100ft contour.
A. Lawson (NAU), 28 October 1976.

Very probably the site of the barrow entered under NHER 3754.

19 April 1976. Ordnance Survey air photography.
Soilmarks. Ring ditch.
D. Voisey (NAU), 25 January 1995.

Monument Types

  • RING DITCH (Unknown date)
  • RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status

  • SHINE

Sources and further reading

---Aerial Photograph: RAF. RAF AP.
---Aerial Photograph: OS 76-019-108.
---Aerial Photograph: OS 76-019-109.
---Aerial Photograph: OS 76-019-110.
---Article in Serial: Whyte, N.. 2003. The after-life of barrows; prehistoric monuments in the Norfolk landscape.. Landscape History. Vol 25, pp 5-17. pp 5-16.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

Related records

3754Related to: Bronze Age, Iron Age or Early Saxon round barrow (Monument)

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