NHER 31638 (Monument record) - Three or four Bronze Age ring ditches

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Summary

Cropmarks visible on aerial photographs from 1956 indicate three or four ring ditches which have been identified as Bronze Age in date.

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None recorded

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Map sheet	TG30NW
Civil Parish	POSTWICK WITH WITTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

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16 January 1956. RAF aerial photography.
Three or four ring ditches.
Reported by MARS project (S1). Photo (S2) not seen by NLA.
E. Rose (NLA), 7 December 1995.

June 2007.
No ring ditches were visible in 1964 RAF aerial photography (S3) examined by the National Mapping Program. Cropmarks in this area were limited to field boundaries of possible medieval to post medieval date (NHER 49562).
H. Hamilton (NLA), 28 November 2008.

September 2006.
Google Earth (S4) shows cropmarks of 1 ring ditch.
D. Lefeuvre (HES), 21 February 2011.

Associated Sources (5)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF66010 Unpublished Document: Monuments at Risk Survey Report.
<S2> SNF10554 Aerial Photograph: F21 540/1778-0020.
<S3> SNF67945 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1964. RAF 58/6402 (F21) 0026-8 06-JUL-1964 (NMR).
<S4> SNF71335 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Google Earth. ? - present. Google Earth Orthophotographs. https://earth.google.com/web. 11-SEP-2006 Accessed 21-FEB-2011.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

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Postwick (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Jan 25 2021 2:58PM