NHER 4470 (Monument record) - Possible undated ring ditch or sea mark

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Summary

It is recorded that this may be the site of a number of undated or possibly Bronze Age ring ditches. However no evidence of these has been seen on the ground, and it is possible that the features described may be a sea mark.

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Map sheet TF51SW
Civil Parish WALPOLE HIGHWAY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Mound near Lyndhurst - not visited by R. R. Clarke (NCM).
Marked as tumulus by Ordnance Survey. Their records mention four circles, ten paces diameter, round mound to southwest. Another to north.
O. G. S. Crawford 18 April 1933.
Sea mark? See NHER 2198.

Ground undulates and soil varies in colour in harrowed field but no certain identification of circles or barrows.
A. J. Lawson (NAU), 2 April 1976.

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Walpole St Peter.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 51 SW 2.

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Record last edited

Apr 6 2016 3:38PM

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