NHER 18245 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Cropmark of possible medieval to post medieval mill mound

THE CROPMARKS DESCRIBED BELOW WHICH LIE ADJACENT TO THE RING DITCH ARE NOW RECORDED AS NHER 38552 (A POST MILL).

16 June 1980. NAU air photography.
Positive cropmarks.
1 ring ditch with crossed trunk feature marking a post mill. Another crossed trunk feature adjacent to ring ditch.
S. Norton (NAU) 2 July 1982.

March 2004, Norfolk NMP
The cropmarks described above which lie adjacent to the ring ditch are now recorded as NHER 38552 (a post mill). NMP mapping has led to the alteration of the central grid reference of the site from TG 227 368 to TG 2277 3680.

A ring ditch, perhaps the remains of a medieval to post-medieval mill mound, is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 2277 3680. Its proximity to a number of ring ditches and round barrows of probable Bronze Age date (e.g. NHER 6741) suggests the possibility that this too represents the remains of a prehistoric barrow. The survival of a post mill cross (NHER 38552) 8m to its west, however, makes it more likely that the ring ditch once surrounded a mill mound. Internal features, described as a cross above but not clearly visible as such, may represent the base of a post mill. The ring ditch is overlain by a field boundary (NHER 38553), visible as the cropmark of a ditch aligned north to south, which is depicted on historic maps (S2).

The ring ditch is approximately circular in plan and has a maximum diameter of 26m. A probable causeway on its west side is defined to its north by a slightly bulbous ditch terminal. Two pits have been mapped within the ring ditch; the cropmarks are not clear enough to discern a cross-shape but it is possible that one or both of these features formed the base of a post-mill. Alternatively, if the ring ditch is Bronze Age they might represent graves.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 30 March 2004