Anyone care to a take guess as to this crop mark?

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Anyone care to a take guess as to this crop mark?

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This crop mark has been visible for over 10yrs that I know of any ideas anyone? I have my own ideas but I would like some alternative eyes to make a comment. So please free to suggest anything sensible.
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Not sure Baldric but there looks like a medieval gateway in the bottom centre of the picture?
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:g43: looks like the outline of a castle or keep, to me. mike.

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It certainly looks as though it extends well into the other field, and to my mind, could be an enclosure of some kind. Well worth investigating.
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maybe the corner of a roman fort, we have a few around here, they look very similar except they usually have multi ditches.

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Cheers chaps, you have confirmed my thoughts. My 1st reaction was Roman fortlet, and whilst as yet I have no proof, I have found quite a few Roman coins on an adjacent field, and these have covered the whole period from the invasion to 4C, so it looks extremely interesting.
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I dont know if it's just me but can I see some circles in that rectangle shape.If you look at the bottom right where the dogleg is then look up there are two circles that look like a ring ditch?

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Let me know where it is Mike and I will pop along and check it out for you :emb1:

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Interesting one Baldric & I would say very promising :g58: :g58: :g50:
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roman temp fort (playing card)!
it could be one of the very early invasion forts.......
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Also worth checking local records to make sure it isn't something more modern.
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Hmmmm interesting, what are the measurements? First thought is Roman?
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Is there anything shown on magic maps :g43:

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:g58: very very interesting. good luck with that.

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