NHER 45029 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Cropmarks of possible Bronze Age barrow

1977-1980. Aerial Photography and Air Photo Interpretation.
Identified in Norfolk Archaeological Unit aerial reconnaissance (S4).
Cropmarks of several ring ditches (NHER 49687, NHER 45032, NHER 45028, NHER 45029, NHER 45030), enclosures (NHER 45018) and possible Roman temple (NHER 45036).
These features were originally recorded under NHER 12137, but were separated into the records noted above in 2006. This record now details the Roman Temple.
A crop mark plot was compiled for this area ( See drawing (S5) and slide (S6)), and and was published in East Anglian Archaeology (S7) to accompany a summary of the site.
Information is recorded in HER Record Card for NHER 12137 (S1) and is repeated in Ordnance Survey Record Cards (S2) and HER Record Notes (S3).
Amended H. Hamilton (HES), 14 January 2025.

July 2001. Air Photo Interpretation.
Examination of NLA air photography dated 02 July 1996 (S8).
Cropmarks of three ring ditches (NHER 45032), Roman temple site (NHER 45036) and rectilinear enclosures (NHER 45018) all still visible. Large example double ringed hengiform monument.
These features were previously recorded under NHER 12137.
S. Massey (NLA), 23 July 2001. Amended H. Hamilton (HES), 14 January 2025.

September 2006. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks of a ring ditch, possibly the remains of a Bronze Age barrow, are visible on aerial photographs to the northeast of Aldeby Vicarage (S9). The site is centred on TM 4527 9374. This possible barrow may form part of a barrow group or cemetery with a number of round barrows and larger, more hengiform, circular monuments to the north (NHER 45028, 45030, 45032), see NHER 49687 for details. Although this ring ditch is much smaller than the surrounding monuments. An alternative interpretation is that this ring ditch is the drip-eave gully formed around the roof of a hut circle, although this feature is not located within or in association with any obvious enclosures. A series of irregular shaped fields had previously been recorded in this area (NHER 12137), however these have the appearance of geological features and have not been mapped as part of NMP.

The ring ditch is 9-10m in diameter and has a slight break in the ditch to the northeast. A short section of ditch located within the ring may not be a contemporary feature and could equally be of geological origin, see NHER 45034 for discussion of the geological features in this area.
S. Massey (NMP), 01 September 2006.