NHER 1946 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Cropmarks of Bronze Age round barrow cemetery

1964.
Five ring ditches (one athwart North/South Creake parish boundary) visible on infra-red aerial photograph taken on 18 June 1961.
Probably round barrow group. Three northern ones are larger than the two southern ones.
Information from [1].
Seen by E. B. Green (NCM).

17 March 1976.
No sign in ploughed field.
A. J. Lawson (NAU) 17 March 1976.

October 2025. Northwest Norfolk Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AI&M) Project.
The ring ditches described above, almost certainly representing the site of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery, are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs (S1-S3). The infra-red aerial photograph cited above was not available for consultation but it is assumed that the five ring ditches identified on it are the same as those mapped by the survey. The ring ditches are now recorded individually as NHER 70041-45. There are faint traces of what may be additional ring ditches visible on the aerial photographs but their archaeological significance was too uncertain to warrant mapping them. Low earthwork mounds are visible within two of the ring ditches (NHER 70041 and 70042) on visualised lidar data (S4). Linear ditches visible as cropmarks across the same area as the cemetery, which are presumed to be of later date, are recorded as NHER 70046.
Some of the information given in previous records of the site appears to be incorrect. The ring ditches range in diameter from approximately 30m to 38m, the largest being one of the southern two, contrary to the statement above. Similarly, the group does not straddle the parish boundary, again as stated above; the parish boundary lies some 100m to the north. Also, contrary to the implication in the Historic England Research Record for the site (S5), the cemetery is not visible on the RAF 1946 photographs listed in that record as a source (S6).
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 3 October 2025.