NHER 52301 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Site of possible Bronze Age ring ditch

June 2010. Norfolk NMP.
A possible ring ditch, perhaps marking the site of a Bronze Age round barrow, is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 2366 0581. The site is rather faint and not entirely convincing as an archaeological feature, but it does lie in an area of dense prehistoric ceremonial/funerary activity, close to and in an approximate alignment with the cropmarks of a Bronze Age linear barrow cemetery (NHER 52302) 95m to the east. It is perhaps the most convincing of all the possible ring ditches identified in the vicinity of the cemetery, and is certainly more convincing than the possible ring ditch pencilled onto the aerial photograph (but otherwise unrecorded).
The ring ditch is approximately circular in plan and measures up to 18m in diameter.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 29 June 2010.