NHER 66200 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Site of a probable Bronze Age ring ditch

August 2001. Air photo interpretation.
Cropmarks of two ring ditches are visible in this area (S1).
This is the larger and clearer of the two. The second one is recorded under NHER 66203.
As well as these, several cropmarks of linear features are visible. The origin of these is uncertain, but it is likely they are post-medieval field boundaries. However one of these linears coincides with the line of the parish boundary.
This ring ditch was previously recorded under NHER 36348.
H. Clare (NLA), 24 August 2001. Amended H. Hamilton (HES), 01 July 2022

July 2022. Aerial imagery interpretation.
This ring ditch is also clearly visible on Google Earth aerial photography (S2). It would have most likely related to a former Bronze Age barrow. The cropmark is immediately adjacent to a meandering section of the parish boundary between Flordon and Bergh Apton, formerly represented by a field boundary depicted on the First Edition Ordnance Survey map (S2), and now visible as a cropmark in a variety of aerial photographs. If the barrow was still visible as an earthwork when this boundary was formed it is likely that the parish boundary was diverted to avoid the barrow.
This ring ditch is one of a small group (NHER 36348) arranged north-south on ground to the east of a watercourse. Other ring ditches in this area include NHER 66203 to the north (first recorded alongside this ring ditch in 2001), and NHER 66201, NHER 64386, and less convincingly NHER 66202 to the south. An additional less-certain cropmark (NHER 66204) located approximately 400m to the north has not been included in this group. A further area to the south extremely tentatively identified as a possible ring ditch (NHER 11679) is now believed to be of natural origin.
H. Hamilton (HES), 01 July 2022.