NHER 45129 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Incomplete ring ditch cropmark

October 2006. Norfolk NMP
A cropmark of an incomplete ring ditch, probably relating to a Bronze Age round barrow, is visible on aerial photographs (S1). This cropmark is centred on TG 3119 1017. The southeast half of a possible ring ditch cropmark is visible. If complete it would have a circular plan with a 2m to 3m wide ditch and an external diameter of 33m. If this cropmark was once a complete ring ditch, it is likely that it is of Bronze Age date and that it relates to a round barrow. It is located at approximately 13m OD on the northwest facing slope of a small valley containing the Witton Run watercourse. Other ring ditch cropmarks are located 150m to the east (NHER 45130) and 210m to the southwest (NHER 12827). It is possible that the northwest side of the ring ditch has been completely removed by ploughing. However, the northern end of the C-shaped ditch cropmark is slightly larger wider indicating that it may be a deliberate terminal. It is possible that the ring ditch had at least one entrance, like the double ring ditch located to the east (NHER 45130). Alternatively it could have been constructed as a C-shaped ditch similar to the one recorded to the southwest (NHER 45167). Although several of these C-shaped ditch cropmarks have now been identified in Norfolk, their date and function are uncertain.
J. Albone (NMP), 10 October 2006