NHER 61999 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Small circular enclosure or possible mound, of possible Bronze Age or post-medieval date

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Summary

A small circular enclosure, or possibly a mound, is visible as an earthwork on imagery from a lidar survey flown in 2015. It is undated, but it could be a post-medieval enclosure, perhaps related to warrening, or the remains of a Bronze Age round barrow.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL88NW
Civil Parish THETFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

December 2017. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
A small circular enclosure of unknown date is visible as an earthwork on imagery from a lidar survey flown in 2015 (S1). It is undated, but it could be a post-medieval enclosure, perhaps related to warrening; other, similar enclosures have been recorded in the vicinity. However, the earthworks almost look like a circular platform, rather than a clearly defined enclosure, and they could instead represent the remains of a Bronze Age round barrow. The earthworks lie within the northern corner of a larger, rectilinear enclosure (NHER 62077) which is likely to be of post-medieval date, but it is not known whether they are contemporary. It also overlaps with areas of ridging and associated boundaries (NHER 62123), also thought to be of post-medieval date, but the earthworks are too low and poorly defined for the relationship between them to be discerned.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 20 December 2017.

  • <S1> LIDAR Airborne Survey: Various. LIDAR Airborne Survey. LIDAR Thetford Forest Research 0.5m DTM 17-JUL-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial).

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2021 2:45PM

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