NHER 52041 (Cropmark and Earthwork) - Possible Bronze Age ring ditch

April 2009. Norfolk NMP.
A possible Bronze Age ring ditch is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (S1), centred on TG 2868 0824. The feature is rather ephemeral, and not entirely convincing, as it was only visible on one set of photographs, and has therefore been recorded with a ‘health warning’.

It measures approximately 14m in internal diameter, and the ditch itself varies in width from 1.9m to 3.3m. An apparent break (of more than 13m) on the northeast side of the ditch circuit is as likely to reflect the cropmark being masked, as it is the presence of a genuine entrance or causeway.

While not all ring-ditches are round barrows, the size and location of the ring-ditch, on a low promontory overlooking the Yare valley, makes it very likely that it represents a burial monument from the Bronze Age period, although its archaeological origin is in doubt. The presence of three possible Late Neolithic to Bronze Age ring ditches just over 400m to the north (NHER 21766) may corroborate this theory.
E. Bales (NMP), 7 April 2009.

September 2006.
The ring ditch can also be seen on Google Earth imagery.
See (S2) for further details.
D. Lefeuvre (HES). 21 February 2011.