Cropmarks of Bronze Age ring ditches, undated enclosures and linear features, SW of Reed Island (EHER 2)

A large pear shaped enclosure was seen as cropmarks on air photographs. It is now seen to be protected on the south west by four successive ditches. The interior is crossed by divisions which appear small for field enclosures. Also seen are cropmarks of fourteen Bronze Age ring ditches seen on air photographs. A Linear feature was seen as cropmarks on air photographs in 1977.

Cropmarks comprising of a nucleated group of over fifteen ring ditches on the Stour floodplain. The largest ring ditch has a double ditch and two ring ditches partly contiguous with it have large dark central areas. All seem to be contained within one field of a rectilinear system which extends southwards to be bounded by further linear features and a curving trackway <1> Aerial photograph references: <2> - <22> Photo reference <23> 89/S 1988. AP <25> The complex is located in a single field at a height of c.2m. It was visited as part of a preliminary field survey. <26> Information from three NRHE records. NRHE record 924627 TM 090324. A linear cropmark was recorded from aerial photographs in 1977 in a field immediately to the east of a ring ditch cluster (TM 03 SE 24). <31> NRHE record 924625 TM 08603255. A large pear shaped enclosure was recorded as a cropmark from aerial photography in 1977. It is now seen to be protected on the south west side by four successive ditches (perhaps for drainage). The interior is criss-crossed by divisions which appear somewhat small for field enclosures. <31> NRHE record 386589 TM 088327. Crop marks of at least eleven separate ring ditches plus a group of three comprising one double ditched circle with two smaller single rings partially underlying it. <31> <32> Scheduled listing. <33> Additional references. <34> <4> <8>