Cropmarks of late prehistoric enclosure, Highfield House (EHER 49479)

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Cropmarks of a large circular enclosure of possible prehistoric date are visible on aerial photographs.

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Grid reference	Centred TL 5075 4226 (276m by 269m)
Civil Parish	LITTLE CHESTERFORD, UTTLESFORD, ESSEX

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Cropmarks of a large circular enclosure, approximately 40m in diameter of a possible prehistoric date. The enclosure has a narrow ditch with no visible entrances or internal features, however the south-west edge of the ditch has been truncated by the railway. Elsewhere in the same field a parallel ditches that may be a wide trackway or possibly field boundaries. <1>

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<1> SEX74059 Aerial Photograph (Digital): Saunders, H.. 2019. EX19/07/124-126.

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