Monument record FRT 025 - Bronze Age ring ditch/roundbarrow visible as a cropmark

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Summary

A possible Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs to the south of Freston Wood

Location

Grid reference Centred TM 1723 3928 (36m by 34m)
Map sheet TM13NE
Civil Parish FRESTON, BABERGH, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (2)

Full Description

Ring ditch, circa 25m diameter. One of a close group of three (also FRT 024,026), within field system, FRT 007, and close to enclosure, FRT 027 (S1-S4, S6-S7).
A possible Bronze Age round barrow is visible as the cropmark of a ring ditch on aerial photographs, located at TM 17233928 in the field to the south of Freston Wood, Freston parish. The ring ditch encloses an area of, on average, 22m in diameter and is located in close proximity to two other ring ditches,FRT 024 and FRT 026. This group of three ring ditches is unusually regular in its arrangement and all three ring ditches appear to enclose an area of very similar diameter. (S1-S4, S6-S7) However there was no evidence available during the project to suggest that the ring ditches should be interpreted as Post Medieval or Modern features and it is possible that they represent the remains of ploughed out round barrows of Bronze Age date. (S8)

Sources/Archives (10)

  • <M1> (No record type): APs: SAU ACS 20-22, AGJ 15; Farrands 106.5.
  • <S1> Photograph: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Air Photograph. NMR TM 1739/4 (SFU 11549/CS/20) 23-JUL-1975.
  • <S2> Photograph: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Air Photograph. NMR TM 1739/5 (SFU 11549/CS/21) 23-JUL-1975.
  • <S3> Photograph: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Air Photograph. NMR TM 1739/6 (SFU 11549/CS/22) 23-JUL-1975.
  • <S4> Photograph: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Air Photograph. NMR TM 1739/2 (SFU 11565/GJ/15) 21-JUL-1977.
  • <S5> (No record type): Farrands, AP 106.5, 1977.
  • <S6> Photograph: National Monuments Record. Air Photograph. NMR TM 1639/1 (826/224) 07-JUL-1975.
  • <S7> Photograph: National Monuments Record. Air Photograph. NMR TM 1639/1 (826/224) 07-JUL-1975.
  • <S8> Verbal communication: Newsome, S.. 2001 -. Suffolk Coastal NMP Project. Sarah Newsome 15/08/03.
  • <S9> Digital archive: Historic England. National Record Of the Historic Environment.

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  • None recorded

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Record last edited

May 4 2021 1:29PM

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