Cropmarks of possible Iron Age settlement, South of Crockleford Heath (EHER 2489)

Cropmarks showing linear features, possibly part of a circular enclosure. It may have been a possible Iron Age settlement enclosure and an associated small square enclosure.

Cropmarks showing linear features, possibly part of a circular enclosure. <1> <2> <3> A ring-ditch 17m in diameter, and several linear features that maybe field boundaries were mapped for the NMP <4> Information from NRHE TM 041 260 Crop marks. <5> Whimster refers to a cropmark site at Wivenhoe which he describes as being a small square enclosure which "seems to be associated" with a prehistoric settlement site. The square enclosure is apparently small in size and lacks any visible entrances, and as such Whimster links it with other small square or rectangular enclosures and barrows of probable Iron Age date which appears to have had a funerary or ritual function. In his appendix he describes the enclosure as being c. 9m square, and states that it lies adjacent to a settlement enclosure. He provides an NGR of TM 042254, which is close enough to that provided by authority 1 to suggest the same cropmark complex is being referred to. <<6> <7>