NHER 52224 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Cropmarks of at least two small ring ditches

March 2009. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks of at least two small ring ditches, probably the remains of small domestic or temporary structures of later prehistoric or Iron Age date, are visible on aerial photographs (S1-S3) to the southeast of the Roman town of Venta Icenorum (NHER 9786). The site is centred on TG 2339 0311. The most convincing component of this site is the northern penannular ring ditch, located at TG 2338 0316 and measuring 8.5m in diameter (S2). The southern possible ring ditch may be located at TG 2339 0305, measuring 7m across (S1). Although it must be stated that this ring ditch was only noted on a rectified scan of the aerial photograph and has not been identified on the original photograph and therefore its presence cannot be corroborated at present. Additional possible ring ditches of varying sizes were tentatively identified within this field on (S2) at TG 2341 0310 and TG 2343 0307, although were not mapped due to the possibility that they were geological in origin.
S. Horlock (NMP), 23 March 2009