Undated cropmarks of trackway, pits, and a ring ditch, North East of Howbridge Hall (EHER 3158)

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Undated cropmarks comprising a north-south aligned trackway, pits, and a ring ditch are visible on aerial photographs.

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Grid reference	Centred TM 178 273 (675m by 538m)
Civil Parish	GREAT OAKLEY, TENDRING, ESSEX

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Cropmarks comprising a north-south aligned trackway, pits, and a ring ditch. <1> - <8> Trackway not originally mapped, but added to NMP plot as part of 2010 update. <9> <11> NRHE data import (387857): TM 179 273. Crop mark of a ring ditch. <3> NRHE data import (924607): TM 181 273. Faint ring ditches were observed as cropmarks north west of Mardens Farm beside a stream, on aerial photographs. <12> [It is unclear whether the second ring ditch is also part of this site, or that recorded separately approximately 275m to the east as part of EHER 3169].

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<1> SEX11525 DESC TEXT: Unknown. unknown. TM12.098.
<2> SEX52658 RECORD SHEET/FORM: Ordnance Survey. 1950-1990. OS cards. TM12NE21, 1977.
<3> SEX11527 Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. 1972. BJB 52, 54. Date 1972:6.
<4> SEX11528 Aerial Photograph: NMR. 1976. TM1827/1/397. Date 1976:6.
<5> SEX11529 Aerial Photograph: McMaster, I.. unknown. 2.19.
<6> SEX11530 Aerial Photograph: McMaster, I.. 1979. 3.26. Date 1979:7.
<7> SEX11531 Aerial Photograph: McMaster, I.. 1979. B7.137.
<8> SEX72613 Aerial Photograph (Digital): Saunders, H.. EX14/04/066-072.
<9> SEX66823 Aerial Photograph: NMR. 1980. TM1727/3/168.
<10> SEX66824 Aerial Photograph: NMR. 1990. TM1827/5/86.
<11> SEX22419 Map: Ingle, C.J., Strachan, D., Tyler, S. and Saunders, H.. 1993-2017. NMP Cropmark Plot - 1:10,000. paper. 1:10,000.
<12> SEX76474 Serial: Colchester Archaeological Group Annual Bulletin. 1978. Colchester Archaeological Group Annual Bulletin, Vol. 21. 21.

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Old SMR Number: TM12-098
NRHE identifier: 387857
National Monuments Record: TM 12 NE 21
NRHE identifier: 924607
National Monuments Record: TM 12 NE 24