NHER 52246 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Cropmarks of two ring ditches, possible remains of later prehistoric or Iron Age roundhouses or Bronze Age round barrows

March 2009. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks of two ring ditches, which potentially represent the remains of later prehistoric or Iron Age roundhouses or Bronze Age round barrows, are visible on aerial photographs to the south of Caistor Lane, Caistor St Edmund (S1). The site is centred on TG 2408 0347. The larger ring ditch measures 17.5m in diameter and smaller, only partially visible, ring ditch is 10.5m in diameter. These ring ditches could feasibly represent the remains of the eaves-drip gullies of later prehistoric to Roman date roundhouses. Finds of Iron Age, Roman and Saxon date have been found within the general vicinity of this site (NHER 9802, 9805, 9807 and 13558). The smaller southern ring ditch may be located within one of the enclosures recorded under NHER 52260, interpreted as being either later prehistoric to Roman in date. However the northern ring ditch would appear to be overlain or overlies ditches seemingly of the same phase. An alternative interpretations is that one or both of the ring ditches represent the remains of a Bronze Age round barrows.
S. Horlock (NMP), 11 March 2009.