NHER 44928 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Site of probable Bronze Age round barrow

September 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A ring ditch is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (S1)-(S2), centred at TG 4178 1628. Like many of the other ring ditches visible in this area, the site probably represents the remains of a Bronze Age round barrow. Although it lies below 5m OD, which, given both the usual ‘sky line’ location for such monuments and the Broads’ history of fluctuations in relative water levels, might argue against this interpretation, examination of stereo vertical aerial photographs of the area suggests that despite the impression given by Ordnance Survey contour data the ring ditch occupies a relatively elevated position. The linear and curvilinear ditches that surround the site (part of NHER 45089) almost certainly represent later phases of activity.

The ring ditch is circular in plan and measures 16m in diameter. A pit-like cropmark within it could mark the site of a central burial, or could simply be a geological mark or part of the later ditch (NHER 45089) with which it is contiguous.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 28 September 2006.