Multi-period cropmark complex, south of 'Smallands Hall' (EHER 8385)

Cropmarks of linear features, a ring ditch and pits.

Cropmarks centred on above TL 824 105: linear features including a set of double parallel ditches or trackway (though it could be part of a drainage system) and a ring ditch and also pits. <1> September 1976. Field survey. The crop-marks lies on a gentle SW slope under plough. Perambulation produced no finds or evidence of any features apart from the linear running NE-SW which appears to be a gas pipe line. <2> <3> See aerial photographs: <4> - <9>. Other cropmarks include: at approximately TL 821 108 is part of a large circular feature suggested to be a possible causewayed enclosure, and at approximately TL 822 105 two thirds of a rectangular enclosure are cut by the present trackway to Smallwoods Hall. <6> <9> Excavation of trenches across a possible causewayed enclosure was photographed from the air on August 25th 1993. <7> Note: Some of the cropmarks recorded on the NMP cropmark plot within the mapped polygon appear to be continguous with cropmarks also recorded to the immediate west at EHER 8875 and potentially to the south at EHER 8878. To the east, two Bronze Age round barrows are recorded as cropmarks in EHER 8877. Part of the cropmark complex was excavated in 1993, see EHER 18046 and EHER 18047. <10> Original HER entry merged with NRHE data transfer.