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Crop marks formerly interpreted as a ring ditch, now believed to be the marks of 20th century cultivation. North Cerney
County: Gloucestershire
District: COTSWOLD
Parish: NORTH CERNEY
NGR: SP 00 07
Monument Number: 2075
HER 2075 DESCRIPTION:-
Uncertain ring-ditch south west of Scrubditch showing as an unbroken ring 15m in diameter against a patchy background. No trace of a feature is visible in this field, under a young crop. {Source Work 862.}
2019 - This monument was previously recorded within the Historic England National Record of the Historic Environment. Additional information from that record, formerly held within the AMIE database, is quoted below:
“SP 00960769 Uncertain ring-ditch SW of Scrubditch, showing as an unbroken ring 50ft dia against a patchy back-ground. (1-2)
No trace of a feature is visible in this field currently under a young crop. (3)
A possible Bronze Age round barrow, which has been reinterpreted as a Twentieth Century cultivation mark is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The site comprises a single oval cropmark in scrubby grass which varies between 1 and 5 metres in width, which is centred on SP 0092 0780. The marks may have been produced by a tractor or by vegetational differences, and are likely to be agricultural or cultivation marks. (4).” {Source Work 4249.}

Monuments
RING DITCH(BRONZE AGE)
ROUND BARROW(BRONZE AGE)
CULTIVATION MARKS(20TH CENTURY)

Protection Status

Sources and further reading
862;Ordnance Survey;unknown;Vol:0;
216;Smith IF;1971;Vol:0;
3238;RCHME;unknown;Vol:0;
4249;Historic England;Various;Vol:0;
10263;NMR (1969 ob);1969;
15297;Various;Various;
17277;Moore T;2020;A Biography of Power. Research and excavations at the Iron Age oppidum of Bagendon, Gloucestershire (1979-2017);

Related records
HISTORIC ENGLAND AMIE RECORD;327255
SOUTH COTS / COTS HILLS NMP PROJECT;HE 1460290
SM COUNTY LEGACY;GC 429
NMR INDEX NUMBER;SP 00 NW 22

Source
Gloucestershire County Council: Historic Environment Record Archive