NHER 51972 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Cropmark of a possible undated ring ditch

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Summary

A possible ring ditch was recorded with caution as the cropmark was not entirely clear. The feature was similar in size and character to the smallest of three ring ditches located approximately 800m to the southwest (NHER 21766), and has therefore been tentatively dated to the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age. It was overlain by two later linear features, thought to be fragments of possible field boundaries. Although a geophysical survey undertaken in 2015 identified a potentially corresponding anomaly this did not have the characteristics of an infilled ditch and was instead regarded as possibly evidence of a former sand quarry.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TG20NE
Civil Parish	POSTWICK WITH WITTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

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March 2009. Norfolk NMP.
A possible ring ditch located at TG 2896 0953 recorded with caution as the cropmark was not entirely convincing, being slightly blurred and only visible on one set of aerial photographs (S1). The feature was similar in size (12m internal diameter) and character, having a possible causeway to the south east, to the smallest of three ring ditches located approximately 800m to the southwest (NHER 21766), and has therefore been tentatively dated to the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age.
E. Bales (NMP), 11 March 2009.

May 2015. Geophysical Survey.
Magnetometer survey of land south of Smee Lane and west of proposed route of Norwich Northern Distributor Road.
Although a discrete anomaly appears to coincided with this cropmark, this change in the background texture does not have the characteristics of an infilled ditch and was instead regarded as possibly evidence of a former sand quarry.
See report (S2) and NHER 62623 for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 7 March 2021.

Associated Sources (2)

<S1> SNF71730 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1996. OS/96248 394-6 22-JUL-1996 (NMR).
<S2> SNF100995 Unpublished Contractor Report: Roseveare, M. and Lewis, D. 2015. Land off Smee Lane, Norwich, Norfolk. Geophysical Survey Report. ArchaeoPhysica Ltd. SNN151.