NHER 52450 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Site of possible Bronze Age round barrow

November 2009. Norfolk NMP.
A possible ring ditch is visible as a vegetation mark on aerial photographs (S1)-(S2), within Horsford Heath plantation area and the dispersed barrow cemetery (NHER 52449).
The ditch encloses an area of 13m internally, and is approximately 1m in width. There may be a possible entrance, or 6m wide break in the ditch on the southern side. Within this ditch, it is possible that there is a smaller, fragmentary ring ditch or internal feature, centred at TG 1840 1780, slightly south of the centre of the external ditch. This inner ditch measures approximately 0.7m in width, and a potential maximum of 5m in external diameter, although it is semi-circular in plan, and may have never represented a complete ring ditch.
The vegetation marks themselves are not entirely convincing, and may not be archaeological in nature, but due to the fact that there are several other Bronze Age barrows in the vicinity, and that two possible round barrows were recorded, but never confirmed, in this area (NHER 7774), this feature has been mapped and recorded, albeit with a note of caution, as it is only visible on two sets of photographs, and rather differently on each one.
E. Bales (NMP), November 2009.