Possible Bronze Age barrows, east of Hoe Farm (EHER 7858)

During the trial trench excavation of a cropmark enclosure (see EHER 7859), evidence was recorded for possible Bronze Age occupation, indicated by an assemblage of possibly Bronze Age flint artefacts and pottery sherds, though nothing was diagnostically so. Ring ditches in the cropmark complex could represent Bronze Age barrows but these were not excavated by the 1976 trial trenching.

April-May 1976. Trial trenching. A cropmark enclosure (see EHER 7859) was excavated in 1976. The excavation recorded evidence for possible Bronze Age occupation, indicated by finds of possibly Bronze Age flint artefacts and pottery, though nothing was diagnostically so. Residual Neolithic-Bronze Age pottery came from a number of later features (see EHER 7857). The finds may stem from agricultural activity in the area. Ring ditches (not excavated) in the cropmark complex could represent Bronze Age barrows. One is respected by an Iron Age enclosure ditch (see EHER 7859). <1> <2> <3> See also <4>. See aerial photographs <5> - <8>. Note: It has not been possible to determine the location of the Bronze Age finds from the excavation. They may have been recovered from the fieldwalking survey, for which it has not been possible to determine the extent. As a result, the mapped polygon represents the maximum possible extent from which the finds may have been recovered and has been derived as part of the 'whole-field' approach to recording cropmarks in the data during the NMP project, see EHER 7863. It includes all of the plotted ring ditches.