NHER 55861 (Landscape record) - Probable Bronze Age barrow cemetery

Previously recorded under NHER 11294.

One ring ditch (NHER 11756, probably not part of this cemetery) visible on ground as dark ring about 24m diameter with stony centre in ploughed field. Others not visible.
A. Lawson (NAU), 16 March 1975.

1975.
All 'rings' have slight surface depressions, they would appear to be infilled chalk pits.
Information from (S1).
R. J. Rickett, 24 March 1990.

29 October 1976.
Group of ten ring ditches forming a circle.
Visible on RAF air photographs (S2) and on other air photographs.
Information from A. Lawson (NAU), correcting earlier card (S1).

19 April 1976. Ordnance Survey air photography.
Positive cropmarks/soilmarks. Ring ditches.
See (S3), (S4) and (S5).
D. Voisey (NLA), 23 January 1995.

Google Earth shows a number of possible ring ditches.
See (S6) for further details.
D. Lefeuvre (NLA), 20 September 2010.

These ring ditches are also visible on other oblique photographs, see (S7)-(S16).
Ring ditches which form part of this cemetery were previously recorded under NHER 11294 and are now recorded individually as NHER 55851-NHER 55860. The barrow cemetery has been extended beyond the former extent of NHER 11294 to include NHER 3742 and NHER 32058.
This may relate to another Bronze Age barrow cemetery further to the north (NHER 55864) which comprises 6 further ring ditches.
A. Cattermole (HES), 25 July 2011.

December 2021. Castle Acre Heritage Project.
A possible additional ring ditch, at approximately TG 7391 1945, is visible as a cropmark on Google Earth imagery from 2006 (S17). It is recorded individually as NHER 67250.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 17 December 2021.