Record Details
NHER Number: | 2303 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | Bronze Age round barrow and Iron Age pottery |
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Summary
This is the site of a Bronze Age round barrow. A fragment of pottery, possibly dating to the Iron Age, was found in 1933.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TF 7773 2090 |
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Map Sheet: | TF72SE |
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Parish: | GREAT MASSINGHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Small tumulus a few yards east of Cissbury pit (NHER 2302).
Undug.
Information from A. Q. Watson.
R. R. Clarke (NCM)
1933.
On heath on mound of ?debris from adjacent pit was found one rim with broken lip and coarse dark uneven paste with suggestions of wheel turning.
[1] thinks it is possibly late Iron Age.
See (S1).
Card by R. R. Clarke (NCM) referring to same feature, see (S2).
No sign in ploughed field.
Upcast from pit?
A. J. Lawson (NAU) 8 February 1974.
This barrow is likely to form part of a Bronze Age barrow cemetery (NHER 55865), which includes five other barrows.
A. Cattermole (HES), 25 July 2011.
August 2011. Field visit.
No earthwork/barrow present.
D. Robertson (HES), 23 August 2011.
Monument Types
- MOUND (Unknown date)
- ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
--- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 72 SE 28. |
--- | 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. Massingham. |
--- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Massingham (Great). |
--- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
<S1> | Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. 1939. The Iron Age in Norfolk and Suffolk. The Archaeological Journal. Vol XCVI pp 1-113. p 99. |
<S2> | Map: NCM. NCM Record Map. |
Related records
55865 | Part of: Bronze Age barrow cemetery, Massingham Heath (Landscape) |
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