A cropmark ring ditch at East Northdown was excavated in 1984 in advance of a housing development. The site had previously, and tentatively, been identified as a henge, but proved to be a single continuous circular ditch, which may have originally surrounded the mound of a barrow. No clear primary internment was found, although Beaker sherds were found in secondary contexts. Three possible cremation pits inside the enclosed area plus an inhumation inserted in the ditch attest to Late Bronze Age activity. Pottery, flints and metalwork of Late Bronze Age date were also found. The monument was later incorporated into the boundary of a Romano-British or later field system. Two inhumations inserted into the top of the silted up barrow ditch were probably also of Romano-British or later date