Record Details

NHER Number:28110
Type of record:Monument
Name:Possible Bronze Age hearth

Summary

A map produced prior to 1931 recorded a Bronze Age Hearth at this location. However, no trace of the site was found during an Ordnance Survey visit.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TL 9918 9182
Map Sheet:TL99SE
Parish:SHROPHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

Pre 1931. 'A Bronze Age Hearth' sited from map in (S1).
No trace of site during Ordnance Survey visit.
Site in field near River Thet and old gravel workings.
Information from (S2).
M. D. Leah, 11 February 1991.

Monument Types

  • BURNT MOUND (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 99 SE 28.
<S1>Article in Serial: Apling, H. 1931. Bronze Age Settlements in Norfolk. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol VI Pt IV pp 365-370. p 366 (map).
<S2>Article in Monograph: Rogerson, A.. 2003. Six Middle Anglo-Saxon Sites in West Norfolk.. Markets in Early Medieval Europe: Trading and ' Productive' Sites, 650-850. Pestell, T. & Ulmschneider, K. (ed.).

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