NHER 11547 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Ring ditch and pit cropmarks

1975.
Ring ditch.
Immediately to the south of this is a dark oval patch - probably natural - and then a cross-shaped mark.
This usually indicates a post mill site, so it is at least a strong possibility that the ring ditch is a moated mill mound.
E. Rose (NAU).

On the other hand this combination of marks can also mean a World War One searchlight site!
However, informant [1] notes that this land was known in 1776 as Mill Pightle. He thinks the cropmark is a sunk post mill of about 1310.
E. Rose (NAU), 29 January 1982.

19 July 1996. NLA air photography.
Cropmark of ring ditch and oval anomaly visible.
S. Massey (NLA), 30 April 2001.

September 2007. Norfolk NMP
Cropmarks of a ring ditch and an undated pit are visible on aerial photographs (S1-S10). The ring ditch is slightly sub-circular in plan with a 2.5m wide ditch and an external diameter of 20m. Cropmarks of four sub-oval pits are present within the ring ditch. It is possible that the ring ditch is of Bronze Age date and that it relates to a round barrow. If this is the case some of the pit cropmarks within the ring ditch may relate to graves. A large sub-oval pit cropmark of unknown date and function is present immediately to the south of the ring ditch. A cross-shaped cropmark has previously been noted to the southeast of the large pit (see above). This cross-shaped cropmark only appears on aerial photographs taken in 1975 (S1) and does not show on any later aerial photographs (S2-S10). It appears to be aligned parallel and perpendicular to the cropping pattern in 1975 and may be of agricultural origin rather than an archaeological feature. Consequently, it has not been mapped by the National Mapping Programme. The cross shape mark was previously interpreted as relating to a medieval post mill. Although an 18th century field name suggests that there was a mill in this area, there is no direct cropmark evidence for its exact location. It is possible that the ring ditch relates to a mill mound rather than a Bronze Age round barrow, or that the post mill reused an existing barrow mound.
J. Albone (NMP), 21 September 2007.