NHER 38649 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Earthwork of unknown date

June 2004, Norfolk NMP.
A ditched enclosure with internal bank is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 2292 3743. It is situated roughly in alignment with, and less than 300m to the south-east of, a Bronze Age linear barrow cemetery (NHER 38632) and although it is larger and more sub-circular than these other barrows it could be an outlier to the cemetery. Alternatively, and perhaps more probably given its rather odd topographical location on the edge of a natural gully and the absence of a mound, it could be associated with 20th-century military activity in the area. Although the earthworks give the appearance of being earlier than most of the features associated with the World War Two training area surrounding the site (NHER 38619), morphologically they bear some resemblance to a large gun emplacement. If this latter interpretation is correct, the site may date to the early years of World War Two or perhaps even to World War One. Later aerial photographs indicate that the area has now been levelled by ploughing.

The ditched enclosure is horseshoe-shaped in plan and is open on its west side. It measures approximately 27.5m long and 27m wide. The asymmetrical internal bank is open on its north-west side where it is 18m wide.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 2nd June 2004.