NHER 11690 (Cropmark and Earthwork) - Site of a Bronze Age round or pond barrow

19 April 1976. Ordnance Survey air photography.
Positive copmarks/soilmarks - ring ditch.
D. Voisey (NLA), 25 January 1995.

Ring ditch.
Checked E. Rose (NAU), 19 October 1976.

Corrected 2 November 1979 by E. Rose (NAU) from Ordnance Survey air photograph.
Shrinkage of wood caused misleading on NAU air photograph.

29 July 1996. NLA air photography.
Cropmark visible.
H. Clare (NLA), 2 May 2001.

26 May 1995. NLA air photography.
Faint cropmark of ring ditch visible.
S. Massey (NLA), 4 May 2001.

19 July 1996. NLA air photography.
Ring ditch visible.
S. Massey (NLA), 26 May 2001.

March 2024. Wendling Beck and Fransham Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AIM) Project.
The earthworks (since levelled) of a ring ditch (see above), most likely relating to a probable Bronze Age round or pond barrow, are visible on aerial photographs taken in 1946 (S1). The earthworks are subsequently levelled with the ring ditch visible as a cropmark on later (1974-2022) aerial photographs (S2-S9 and S11-S12). The presence of a central mound is uncertain. No trace of an earthwork mound was visible on the aerial photograph taken in 1946. It is possible that mound may have survived as a very low earthwork or had been previously levelled. However, a section of earthwork bank (centred at approximately TF 8801 1678) is visible around the exterior of the ring ditch on S1. A hollow (mapped by extent) is also visible within the interior of the ring ditch on the relatively recent (2017) visualised lidar data (S10). It is possible that the features may relate to the site of a Bronze Age pond barrow rather than a round barrow. The site forms part of a Bronze Age barrow cemetery (NHER 68100) along with the sites of further probable Bronze Age round barrows recorded in the vicinity.
J. Powell (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 19 March 2024.