NHER 12786 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Cropmarks of undated field system and enclosures

1976. Aerial photography.
Four ring ditches, one cut by a quarry now backfilled, and another in the curve of an enclosure.
Other linear cropmarks, and a subrectangular enclosure with rounded corners.

1977. Aerial photography.
Fifth ring ditch added.
E. Rose (NAU), 12 September 1977.

Copy of air photograph and correspondence in file.

November 2008. NBIC Northeast Norwich Scoring Project.
This possible ring ditch is in close proximity to several other possible ring ditches and Prehistoric mounments (see NHER 36750, NHER 31742, NHER 36471) as well as a possible Neolithic causewayed enclosure (NHER 7690).
There is an area of more closely grouped ring ditches located southeast of RAF Coltishall. This group includes NHER 5788, NHER 5789, NHER 36338, NHER 36339, NHER 36346, NHER 36473, NHER 36725, NHER 36726, NHER 36727, NHER 36728, and outlying NHER 11672.
H. Hamilton (NLA), 20 November 2008.

July 2023. Aylsham and Brampton Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AIM) Project.
The cropmarks described above have been split into several different sites. This record now relates to an undated rectilinear field system and enclosure(s); the ring ditches, including an additional sixth example, are recorded as cemetery NHER 66754; individual ring ditches NHER 66300-33302 and 66751-66753); a rectilinear enclosure oriented at an angle to the rectilinear field system is recorded as NHER 66755; a trapezoidal enclosure is recorded as NHER 66756; and a group of possible drains is recorded as NHER 66299.
The undated rectilinear field system, incorporating one or more enclosures, is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs (S1-S2). The field system could date to any period, from the later prehistoric to early post medieval. In the same area of cropmarks, two other enclosures are visible: at least six ring ditches, probably the site of Bronze Age round barrows (recorded as cemetery NHER 66754), which appear to be at least partially respected by the field system and are probably the earliest features visible; a trapezoidal enclosure (NHER 66756), which appears to be respected by elements of the field system; and a rectilinear enclosure and associated ditches (NHER 66755), which appears to ignore, or be ignored by, both the field system and the trapezoidal enclosure. A group of possible drainage ditches (NHER 66299), perhaps of relatively late, post medieval to modern date, are also visible within the same field but these are located at a slight distance from the other features. The site also includes a large circular pit, visible at TG2392 2195, the date and purpose of which are uncertain. Late post medieval field boundaries can also be seen as cropmarks across the field; these have not been mapped as they are depicted on readily accessible 19th century maps, such as the Ordnance Survey 1st edition 6 inch (S3).
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 13 July 2023.