NHER 31741 (Monument record) - Possible Bronze Age ring ditches or hut circles, enclosures, and linear features

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Summary

Aerial photography from 1990 to 1996 revealed the cropmarks of six possible Bronze Age ring ditches and a double ringed ditch. Also seen were a linear trackway and two circular enclosures. The smallness of some of the ring ditches, and the association of some of them to the enclosures has led to suggestions that they may be hut circles of possibly Roman date, rather than the remains of Bronze Age burial mounds.

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Location

Map sheet TG22SW
Civil Parish BUXTON WITH LAMMAS, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Map

28 June 1990. NAU air photography.
Double concentric ring ditch and 2 ring ditches.
D. Edwards (NAU).

Also cropmark of a trackway running south-west to north-east to continue the line of the footpath marked on OS to northeast. This joins with the line of the east to west Roman road, however a faint mark on the line of the latter is more probably due to recent use as a trackway, now ploughed up.
E. Rose, (NLA) 26 January 1996.

28 June 1996. NLA air photography.
Double concentric ring ditch still visible, a further six ring ditches are visible.
Two fairly large circular enclosures can be seen, at approximately TG 2595 2373 and at TG 2503 2384.
The western example is the largest and more irregular of the two, and has quite a small ring ditch within its interior. This may be a hut circle. Several of the other ring ditches are also small and may also be similar strcutures, rather than Bronze Age barrows.
A large elongated rectangular enclosure can be seen running east to west across the site. This feature appears to be part of a series of linears and enclosed areas which seem to meet the line of the Roman road (NHER 2796). These enclosures are possibly also elements of the Roman landscape.
The elongated rectangular enclosure has the appearance of a cursus like monument, although it seems too closely connected to other enclosure elements and the Roman road to be Neolithic.
S. Massey (NLA), 9 October 2001.

  • --- Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1996. TG 2423AM - AP, As - AT; TG 2523A - D.
  • --- Aerial Photograph: TG 2423 J-L, Q-S.

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Oct 12 2018 11:57AM

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