Site of Ring Ditch 200m NW of Orchard Farm
Description of this historic site
A ring ditch is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The site is located 500m north west of High Cross.
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Notes about this historic site
12 Large ring ditch shows on aerial photographs. The ring ditch appears to be about 60m across and, as this is rather large for a burial monument, may be a henge. The photographs are fairly unclear but may indicate double opposed entrances on the W and E of the ditch. A small rectangular crop mark to the N is in Leicestershire.
3 An archaeological evaluation completed in 1990 revealed evidence for the existence of a Henge monument in a reasonable state of preservation.
45 Subsequent re-evaluation of the site which lies on the crest of a slope would suggest that it is not a henge.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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