NHER 53476 (Cropmark and Earthwork) - Site of possible pit or post alignment

April 2010. Norfolk NMP.
A possible pit or post alignment, together with additional pit-like features, is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs (S1)-(S5), between TG 2325 0539 and TG 2318 0533. It lies in an area of known prehistoric activity, adjacent to a probable henge or henge-like monument (NHER 9582) of probable Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age date, and a probably associated D-shaped enclosure (NHER 9583). The alignment, which makes up the eastern portion of the site, is the part most likely to be of genuine archaeological origin and significance; the western portion, comprising a collection of similar pit-like marks perhaps mirroring and abutting the edge of the enclosure, may be of geological rather than archaeological origin. Either group could be contemporary with the henge and/or enclosure, or be of slightly later date but established in relation to the earlier monuments. At the same time, there is considerable evidence for what is almost certainly later activity at the site (NHER 15769, 53475), and a post Bronze Age or even modern date for the pits/post holes is also plausible.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 15 April 2010.