NHER 27696 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Cropmark of a ring ditch or possible pound

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Summary

A cropmark of a curved ditch is visible on aerial photographs. It is possible that this is an incomplete ring ditch of Bronze Age date. Alternatively, its location in the corner of a field adajcent to Pound Lane may indicate that it relates to a medieval to post-medieval pound for livestock.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG41SE
Civil Parish FILBY, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

Map

September 2005. Norfolk NMP.
A cropmark of a curved ditch, possibly an incomplete ring ditch of Bronze Age date, or part of a medieval to post medieval pound, is visible on aerial photographs (S1). This cropmark is located at TG 4763 1367. A curved ditch, measuring approximately 35m in length is visible as a cropmark. It is located 90m to the east of the double ring ditch cropmark of a Bronze Age round barrow (NHER 27664). It is possible that it is also part of an incomplete ring ditch. If this were the case it would have a diameter of approximately 38m. The cropmark is located immediately to the south of Pound Lane and is surrounded by cropmarks of a Roman field system and medieval to post medieval property boundaries (NHER 30627). One to the medieval to post medieval ditches appears to join the curved ditch from the south, suggesting a possible contemporary date. It is possible that this ditch related to the pound, referred to in the name of the adjacent thoroughfare, if is location is otherwise not known.
J. Albone (NMP), 28 September 2005

  • <S1> Oblique Aerial Photograph: Jeavons, A.. 1996. NHER TG 4713A (JEAVONS/KRD7) 30-JUN-1996.

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Aug 20 2025 11:46AM

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