NHER 50760 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Possible site of prehistoric funerary monument

January 2008. Norfolk NMP.
A possible oval enclosure or ring ditch is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 2614 1403. It could represent the site of a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument, i.e. a round barrow, oval barrow, or mortuary enclosure. Certainly, its topographic position, overlooking the confluence of a small valley to its southeast and Dobbs’ Beck (a tributary of the Bure) further to its east, would support this interpretation. Other ring ditches and enclosures, also potentially representing prehistoric funerary and/or ceremonial sites, have been identified further to the north, along both sides of Dobbs’ Beck. A significant quantity of prehistoric material, including a fragment of a Bronze Age rapier (part of NHER 28620), has also been recovered from the area. At the same time, the cropmarks are rather faint, and are only visible on one set of aerial photographs, and as a consequence their archaeological origin must be regarded as uncertain. So too is that of some short segments of ditch (NHER 50800), which overlap the enclosure and if genuine are presumably of later date.
The enclosure is an irregular oval in plan, and measures 20.5m long and 16.5m wide.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 15 January 2008.