NHER 38341 (Monument record) - Possible Bronze Age ring ditch

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Summary

The cropmarks of a possible Bronze Age ring ditch are visible on RAF aerial photographs from 1946 and Ordnance Survey aerial photographs from 1981 and 1994.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG14SW
Civil Parish WEYBOURNE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

August 2003. Norfolk NMP.
A possible ring ditch is visible at TG 1167 4322 on RAF aerial photographs from 1946 (S1) and Ordnance Survey vertical aerial photographs from 1981 (S2) and 1994 (S3). The circumference of the ditch is 20.5m and the ditch varies in width from 0.5 to 1.5m. A certain amount of caution must be attached to this site as it is within an area of curvilinear geological gravel patterning. Therefore it is possible that this is also geological in origin. However the cropmark is quite clear on most images, even when the surrounding geological marks are not showing.
S. Massey, 10 August 2003.

February-March 2017. Geophysical Survey.
Magnetometer survey of site on possible route of Hornsea Project Three offshore wind farm onshore cable.
There was no evidence for surviving sub-surface remains associated with this ring-ditch.
Information from draft report. See NHER 34702 for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 19 February 2025.

  • <S1> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1571 3172-3 07-JUN-1946 (NHER TG 1142A-B).
  • <S2> Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1981. OS/81081 103-4 17-AUG-1981 (NMR).
  • <S3> Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1994. OS/94172 021-3 14-JUN-1994.

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Record last edited

Nov 12 2025 7:59AM

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