Cropmarks of late prehistoric or Roman trackway and enclosures, possible field system and undated ring ditch (EHER 3111)

Cropmarks of late prehistoric or Roman trackway and enclosures, possible field system and undated ring ditch are visible on aerial photographs.

Cropmarks, comprising a broad, straight ditched trackway, possibly a Roman road, running north-west to south-east. A tributary trackway leads off north at right angles. The main trackway appears to enter a subrectangular enclosure, although the area is scattered with pits and heavily masked by peri-glacial features. <1> - <6> In 2022 the cropmarks were digitised as part of the NMP update. The interpretation of the small ditched enclosures alongside the road/trackway is that they are a late prehistoric or Roman field system. NRHE data import (387934): Cropmarks visible on air photographs include a length of straight, parallel ditches, traced for around 600m. Possible interpretations include a ditched trackway, although the straightness of the feature has prompted suggestions that it may also represent a Roman road. At one point the feature passes through a subrectangular enclosure. TM 146 230. Crop marks of a broad double-ditched trackway (very straight possibly a Roman Road) passing through a subrectangular enclosure. <5> TM 147 230. A 600m length of straight parallel ditches were recorded as cropmarks at this location. <11> NRHE data import (1233073): TM 1484 2307: A small sub-circular enclosure circa 16 metres in diameter is visible as a faint cropmark on air photographs. It appears to have an entrance to the northwest. The site appears among a complex arrangement of cropmarks, nearly all of which are natural in origin. <12> include the site in their gazetteer of henges, but consider the site unlikely to be a henge. They do not offer an alternative suggestion. A cropmark cross a little to the east may represent traces of a mill. [The cropmarks described here do not appear on the NMP transcription <6>].