NHER 12609 (Monument record) - Site of an undated rampart and ditch

13 July 1977. Site visit by E. Rose (NAU).
W. G. Clarke stated (cutting in Bolingbroke Collection) that there was a 'rampart and ditch' on the 'central bluff of the Ringland Hills', but that it might be of recent date.
Keeper at Easton Lodge assured me that this was still there, but area is overgrown, and all writer could find was a scarp along the 100ft contour which appeared to have been caused by natural erosion.
E. Rose (NAU) 13 July 1977.

The feature seen by E. Rose (NAU/NLA) has now vanished through erosion in the cliff edge. It is possible that the bank and ditch reported by the keeper are in fact within the private fenced lands to the south.
E. Rose (NLA) 21 November 1997.

June 2010. Norfolk NMP.
No sign of a rampart and ditch could confidently be identified at this location on the aerial photographs (S1-S3). This area of Ringland Hills was used for a tank training site during World War Two, see NHER 53659 for details. It is therefore possible that such activity may be obscuring any non-military features on the aerial photographs, although it is much more likely that the ‘rampart and ditch’ feature recorded on the ground is actually the remains of one of the tank tracks that traversed the Ringland Hills. The aerial photographs indicated that some of these were quite substantial and would have left earthwork scars on the landscape.
S. Horlock (NMP), 16 June 2010.