NHER 52114 (Monument record) - Cropmarks of possible Bronze Age enclosure ditches

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Summary

Possible Bronze Age rectilinear enclosures or field boundaries, together with associated linear features, are visible on aerial photographs. The features are oriented north west-south east, and appear to be overlain by a series of ditches of possible late prehistoric to Roman date (NHER 51973).

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG20NE
Civil Parish POSTWICK WITH WITTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Map

May 2009. Norfolk NMP.
Possible Bronze Age enclosures, together with associated linear features, are visible on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 2862 0918.
Although the enclosures are undated, they exhibit similarities to Bronze Age enclosures identified as part of a possible Bronze Age field system at Hemsby (NHER 27338). They measure between 10m and 19m in width, and are oriented roughly north west-south east, and it is possible that the north-eastern most of the possible enclosures exhibits a double- or even triple-ditched boundary to the south east, between TG 2863 0916 and TG 2868 0921, which could represent a fragment of a possible trackway.
The form and orientation of these features is similar to further possible enclosure ditches approximately 500m to the north west (NHER 52109), which have also been tentatively dated to the Bronze Age.
E. Bales (NMP), 27 May 2009.

  • <S1> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1996. OS/96248 396-7 22-JUL-1996 (NMR).

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Record last edited

Jan 23 2018 11:32AM

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