NHER 52218 (Monument record) - Cropmarks of a ring ditch and undated linear ditches

March 2009. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks of a ring ditch and undated linear ditches are visible on aerial photographs to the north of the River Tas (S1-S2). The site is centred on TG 2294 0277. The main component of this site is a ring ditch 15m in diameter (S2), which appears to overlie or is overlain by a boundary ditch or drainage ditch of possible Roman or medieval to post medieval date, see NHER 52211 for details. While it is feasible that the ring ditch relates to a low-lying Bronze Age round barrow, it is also possible that it relates to a stackstand of post medieval date. In 1960 a series of low earthworks, appearing to consist of a smaller circular embankment, located within the same area of the larger ring ditch mentioned above, and a number of short sections of bank (S1). Many of these earthworks would appear to overlie the features identified as cropmarks on later aerial photographs. While it is possible that these relate to earthworks post-dating the cropmarks, that have since been plough-levelled, the fact that none of these possible earthworks could convincingly be identified on earlier aerial photographs, such as (S3), would suggest that they may relate to quite recent activity and have not been mapped. The linear ditch-like features mapped could feasibly relate to medieval to post medieval drainage.
S. Horlock (NMP), 23 March 2009.