NHER 53473 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Cropmarks of a pair of ring ditches and a square enclosure

April 2010. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks of a pair of possible ring ditches and a possible square enclosure may be visible on aerial photographs (S1), possibly all relating to barrows and funerary enclosures of Bronze Age and Iron Age to Roman date. The site is centred on TG 1212 1838. The largest potential ring ditch measures 18.5m in diameter and has a narrow causeway or break in the ditch to the west and two possible pits may be visible within the interior, although this is not certain. To the south of this larger ring ditch are possibly the faint cropmarks of another ring ditch, 10m in diameter, and a square-ditched enclosure, 9m across. The definition of the cropmarks is somewhat indistinct, in particular the larger ring ditch, and it is feasible that they relate to underlying geology. Numerous less regular curvilinear cropmarks to the immediate south have been dismissed as being geological. If these cropmarks are archaeological then it seems likely that the ring ditches represent the remains of Bronze Age round barrow, the enclosure may be of a similar date or later, potentially Iron Age to Roman and could also represent a funerary feature or mortuary enclosure.
S. Horlock (NMP), 26 April 2010.

October 2025. HER Enhancement: Forestry Commission Project K.
The cropmarks of two possible ring ditches (see above) are visible on aerial photograph. The large ring ditch (centred at approximately TG 12136 1839) with the possible associated pit features and the smaller ring ditch (centred at approximately TG 1212 1837) are visible as cropmarks on Google Earth Imagery form 1999 (S2) and on Bing imagery (S4). The large ring ditch and pits are also faintly visible on Google Earth imagery from 2006 (S3). The cropmarks of the square ditched enclosure (see above) were not visible on S2-S4. It is possible that the ring ditches could relate to the site of Bronze Age round barrows. However, as discussed above, the possibility that the features could be natural in origin cannot be ruled out.
J. Powell (Norfolk County Council Environment Service), 06 October 2025