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Crop Marks of five Ring Ditches west of Station Road, Ashwell is a Neolithic or Bronze Age monument complex revealed through aerial photography as cropmark evidence in the parish of Ashwell in Hertfordshire. The five ring ditches represent the fossilised remains of circular ditched enclosures, likely the eroded ground plans of prehistoric burial mounds or settlement features that have been levelled by agricultural activity over millennia. Ring ditches of this type commonly date to the Bronze Age period, though Neolithic origins cannot be excluded without excavation. The survival of these features as subsurface anomalies, preserved in the archaeological record and visible only as differential crop growth patterns, demonstrates their significance as evidence of prehistoric land use and ritual or domestic activity in the Ashwell area.
Crop Marks of five Ring Ditches west of Station Road, Ashwell is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1451703. View the official record →
Crop Marks of five Ring Ditches west of Station Road, Ashwell is a Neolithic or Bronze Age monument complex revealed through aerial photography as cropmark evidence in the parish of Ashwell in Hertfordshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1451703.
Crop Marks of five Ring Ditches west of Station Road, Ashwell is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1451703.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows at Bygrave, 650m east of Park Wood (3.5 km), Radwell Roman villa (5.8 km), Barrow, south of Radwell (6 km).
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