NHER 45028 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Cropmarks of possible Bronze Age barrow

1977-1980. Aerial Photography and Air Photo Interpretation.
Identified in Norfolk Archaeological Unit aerial reconnaissance (S4).
Cropmarks of several ring ditches (NHER 49687, NHER 45032, NHER 45028, NHER 45029, NHER 45030), enclosures (NHER 45018) and possible Roman temple (NHER 45036).
These features were originally recorded under NHER 12137, but were separated into the records noted above in 2006. This record now details the Roman Temple.
A crop mark plot was compiled for this area ( See drawing (S5) and slide (S6)), and and was published in East Anglian Archaeology (S7) to accompany a summary of the site.
Information is recorded in HER Record Card for NHER 12137 (S1) and is repeated in Ordnance Survey Record Cards (S2) and HER Record Notes (S3).
Amended H. Hamilton (HES), 14 January 2025.

July 2001. Air Photo Interpretation.
Examination of NLA air photography dated 02 July 1996 (S8).
Cropmarks of three ring ditches (NHER 45032), Roman temple site (NHER 45036) and rectilinear enclosures (NHER 45018) all still visible. Large example double ringed hengiform monument.
These features were previously recorded under NHER 12137.
S. Massey (NLA), 23 July 2001. Amended H. Hamilton (HES), 14 January 2025.

September 2006. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks of a ring ditch, possibly the remains of a Bronze Age barrow, are visible on aerial photographs to the northeast of Aldeby Vicarage (S9). The site is centred on TM 4541 9377. This possible barrow may form part of a barrow group or cemetery with a number of round barrows and larger, more hengiform, circular monuments to the west (NHER 45029, NHEr 45030, NHER 45032), see NHER 49687 for details.

The ring ditch is incomplete, sub-circular or oval, and measuring 28m by 22m. The cropmarks are not especially clear, largely due to the position of the site within the far ground on the oblique aerial photograph. The southern part of the ring coincides with a tramline and therefore cannot be distinguished clearly. Some more obviously geological cropmarks are visible within the same field and an element of uncertainty must be applied to the interpretation of this ring ditch.
S. Massey (NMP), 01 September 2006.