Neolithic Pits, A Bronze Age Ring Ditch and Late Bronze Age Occupation at Honingham, Norfolk

Archaeological excavations on two adjacent sites in Honingham are reported in this volume. A series of pits containing deliberately placed deposits seems to span the Middle to Late Neolithic, with both Peterborough ware and Grooved ware strongly represented, indicating an early and persistent ritual significance for the location. This was emphasized when a round barrow was constructed in the early Bronze Age (although there was no evidence of an accompanying burial). The barrows ring ditch, however, remained open to receive a human cremation burial in the middle Bronze Age and was probably also still visible in the late Bronze Age when the use of the area shifted to settlement. In the late Iron Age, or very early in the Roman period, field boundaries were laid out, at least one of which was replaced on a couple of occasions into the early and middle Roman period. The two sites produced a significant prehistoric pottery assemblage, although other finds, and environmental data, were sparse. The chronology is supported by a series of radiocarbon dates. See more