NHER 45138 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Cropmarks and earthworks of a possible Bronze Age round barrow or medieval windmill mound

October 2006. Norfolk NMP
A cropmark and slight earthwork of a possible Bronze Age round barrow or medieval mill mound is visible on aerial photographs (S1). This cropmark is centred on TG 3260 1000. A circular ring ditch cropmark with an external diameter of 42m is present. The ditch varies in width from 4m to 8m. Inside the ditch is slight earthwork mound, which also shows as a negative cropmark. This ring ditch and mound were crossed by a post medieval field boundary that is marked on the Blofield tithe map of 1845 (S2). The line of this former field boundary is marked by four trees on the 1990 aerial photograph (S1). One of these is located on the edge of the mound itself. This ring ditch and mound is situated at 15m OD on the southeast facing slope of a small stream valley. It is possible that it relates to a Bronze Age round barrow which had survived in the landscape and had been incorporated into the line of the field boundary. Alternatively it could relate to a medieval to early post medieval mill mound. However there is no cartographic or place-name evidence to support this interpretation. It is of course possible that it relates to a round barrow that was later used as a mill mound.
J. Albone (NMP), 11 October 2006