NHER 52484 (Monument record) - Site of undated, possibly Bronze Age, trapezoidal enclosure

June 2010. Norfolk NMP.
The enclosure described below was previously recorded as part of NHER 9585.
A small, slightly trapezoidal enclosure of uncertain date is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (S1)-(S4), centred at TG 2448 0554. It is reminiscent of some enclosures of known or suspected Bronze Age date identified elsewhere in Norfolk, for example Martham (NHER 27331), Hemsby (NHER 27337) and West Caister (NHER 12828) (see too Albone et al. 2007 (S5)). Certainly, the surrounding area is notable for its evidence of prehistoric activity, both ceremonial/funerary and relating to settlement, and finds of all periods have been recovered from this general area (see NHER 9585).
The enclosure is broadly trapezoidal in plan and measures approximately 30.5m by 29.5m. Although the cropmarks are not particularly clear, there is evidence of internal subdivision, at least on its west side, suggestive of settlement. This side is overlapped by a linear ditch, part of NHER 52489, which could be part of the enclosure or its contemporary landscape. A curvilinear cropmark crossing its east side (also part of NHER 52489) may be of geological rather than archaeological origin, but could conceivably form the enclosure’s east side, the part mapped to its east being very faint. Large pit-like marks within and around the enclosure have not been mapped; while it has been suggested that they might represent Saxon grubenhauser, it is thought more likely that they relate to natural solution hollows (see NHER 9585).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 23 June 2010.