Monument record HLY 154 - The cropmarks of a ring ditch and/or circular enclosure of probable prehistoric date

April 2016. Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Beauty National Mapping Programme.
The site of a large sub-circular or polygonal enclosure of uncertain, but probable prehistoric date is visible on aerial photographs (S1-S3). The enclosure measures approximately 39m by 42m and line of the ditch appears to be formed by straight, segmented sections, with a possible entrance or causeway to the southeast.
Given the size and morphology of the polygonal monument it could be interpreted as relating to a hengiform monument of the later Neolithic to early Bronze Age. Alternatively the enclosure could also have defined a Neolithic or Bronze Age round barrow or similar funerary/mortuary monument or relate to later prehistoric domestic activity. The north-eastern side of the enclosure is either overlain by, or incorporates, the route of a braided trackway (ADT 099). The ditches relating to a possible enclosure or farmstead, also ADT 099, are also located in the same location. Excavation would be required to establish the sequence between all of these components.
S. Horlock (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 20th April 2016.