NHER 27465 (Monument record) - Site of undated enclosure east of Hall Farm

A small, sub rectangular enclosure of unknown date is visible as a cropmark on an aerial photograph. It may be the same site as that recorded as NHER 11648. Various interpretations are possible. It might, for example, mark the site of a prehistoric ceremonial or funerary enclosure; clusters of probable Bronze Age round barrows have been identified 1.25km to the north (NHER 29628) and 1km to the northeast (NHER 11651), indicating the siting of funerary monuments in this area in the prehistoric period. Alternatively, it might have a more mundane and/or recent origin, perhaps as a medieval or post medieval sheepfold, for example. It is surrounded by the fragmentary cropmarks of undated ditch segments (NHER 27464). The ditch that forms or joins its southern side may have been a contemporary feature, as may other nearby ditch fragments.