NHER 50807 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Site of possible elongated enclosure of Neolithic date

January 2008. Norfolk NMP.
Part of a possible elongated ditched enclosure is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 2654 1606. It may represent the site of a Neolithic long barrow or mortuary enclosure, comparable to others mapped in Norfolk and elsewhere (see Albone et al. 2007 (S2) for a discussion of such sites). Certainly, the area seems to have been of significance in the Neolithic and Bronze Age, with several other probable prehistoric funerary monuments recorded in the vicinity. These include a ring ditch (NHER 50806) a few metres to the southeast, and a second elongated enclosure (NHER 50598) 470m to the northwest. The enclosure cropmark described here, however, is not entirely convincing as a man-made feature; it could instead reflect the underlying geology or recent agricultural activity. This is the likely origin of other, curvilinear cropmarks visible in the same field, which have not been mapped by the NMP.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 21 January 2008.