NHER 52114 (Monument record) - Cropmarks of possible Bronze Age enclosure ditches
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG20NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | POSTWICK WITH WITTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
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.
Associated Sources (1)
- <S1> SNF71865 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1996. OS/96248 396-7 22-JUL-1996 (NMR).
Site and Feature Types and Periods (8)
- ENCLOSURE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FIELD BOUNDARY? (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- TRACKWAY? (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- ENCLOSURE (Unknown date)
- FIELD BOUNDARY? (Unknown date)
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE (Unknown date)
- TRACKWAY? (Unknown date)
Object Types (0)
Related NHER Records (0)
Record last edited
Jan 23 2018 11:32AM