NHER 26942 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Possible Bronze Age ring ditch
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF64SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HUNSTANTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
| Former Civil Parish | xOLD HUNSTANTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
June 2001. Norfolk NMP.
Cropmark of a possible ring ditch visible on 1946 RAF photographs (S1). The feature is bisected by the field/parish boundary and the western side is showing much more clearly than the eastern. Half of the mark appears to be in a cricket lawn, which does shed some doubt onto its archaeological origin; the mark may turn out to be fungal. Although the ring seems to continue into the arable crop in the adjacent field. If this is a ring ditch of archaeological origin, then its size, 35m in diameter, is similar to other proved Bronze Age burial mounds in the area (for example NHER 1263)
S. Massey (NMP), 27 June 2001.
Associated Sources (1)
- <S1> SNF51566 Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1571 4096-7 07-JUN-1946 (Norfolk SMR TF 6740A, TF 6840A).
Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)
Object Types (0)
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Record last edited
Mar 14 2022 8:58AM