Monument record STT 008 - Possible henge and associated Barrow cemetery south of Home Whin Farm

Barrow Cemetery N of Shottisham.
Cropmarks of triple ditched and doubled banked concentric ring ditch (S2)(S3). Part of scheduled group STT 004-010. The most elaborate of these, situated approximately at the centre of the northern half of the field, displays features characteristic of a henge. It includes at least three concentric ditches. The outer ditch circuit has a diameter of approximately 40m and encloses a second, penannular(?) ditch approximately 25m in diameter with an entrance on the north side. The third and innermost ditch has a maximum diameter of approximately 17m and is wider than the other two. The aerial photographs show evidence for what are perhaps the remains of a ring bank between the second and third ditches (& first and second)(S3), and at the centre of the enclosure there are traces of a circular feature approximately 7m in diameter which may be a pit or the remains of a small mound or platform of buried turf (S1).
1973: Ploughed fields. No surface finds (S1).
1981: E half of E area ploughed: W of footpath heath. W area ploughed (S1).
1985: All of E scheduled area is now in cultivation. When visited it was under stubble and had recently been subsoiled. Thin scatter of struck flint over most of surface. Some rabbit holes. Natural dip in W-centre, corresponds to gap between 3 northern and 3 southern ring ditches. ... Has a second concentric causewayed ditch, circa 30-35m diameter, with an internal structure to this - this could be termed a Class I Henge (S1)(S2). Interpretation as henge dubious.
January 1998: Scheduled area revised - details in (S1). NGR amended after (S2).

September 2015. Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty National Mapping Programme.
The possible hengiform monument described above is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs (S4)-(S13).
A Bronze Age date has tentatively been suggested in the light of its apparent relationship with the barrow cemetery recorded as SHER STT 064. The available photographs were difficult to rectify hence the location of the features should be treated with a hint of caution.
E. Ford (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 24th September 2015.