Record Details
| NHER Number: | 1863 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible Bronze Age or Iron Age barrow, Warborough Hill |
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Summary
A very degraded and mutilated ditched round barrow of Bronze Age or Iron Age date, threatened by quarrying. Excavations in 1934 revealed a Roman rubbish pit and Iron Age and Roman pottery fragments. The remains of a possibly Roman wall were noted in 1985.
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Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 9605 4341 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF94SE |
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| Parish: | STIFFKEY, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Tumulus.
1934. Excavation revealed Roman rubbish pit and Iron Age sherds.
Possible Roman wall noted.
See notes, schedule (S1) reference (S2), press cuttings (S3) and (S4) and photographs (S5) in file.
E. Rose (NAU), 9 November 1990
Monument Types
- ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- ROUND BARROW (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- PIT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- WALL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Undated)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
- BUILDING MATERIAL (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- SPINDLE WHORL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 94 SE 1. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Stiffkey. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Stiffkey. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Stiffkey. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Designation: [unknown]. Ancient Monuments Form. SAM Record. DNF210. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. and Apling, H. 1935. An Iron Age Tumulus on Warborough Hill, Stiffkey, Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXV Part III pp 408-428. pp 408-428. |
| <S3> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1935. Discoveries at Stiffkey. 7 September. |
| <S4> | Newspaper Article: 1938. [Photograph of Warborough Hill, Stiffkey]. 21 March. |
| <S5> | Photograph: 1934. Various. |
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