Record Details
| NHER Number: | 29253 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Bronze Age round barrow, Lord Bradford's Plantation |
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Summary
Tree felling in 1992 uncovered the remains of a Bronze Age round barrow on this site. The barrows is also are visible on the 0.5m resolution Lidar data. This barrow, along with NHER 33412, NHER 61982, NHER 61983, NHER 61984, and NHER 61985, forms a barrow cemetery (NHER 61986) – which is itself located in close proximity to numerous other barrows, forming a dispersed cemetery landscape group (NHER 61484) in this area.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 7891 9102 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL79SE |
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| Parish: | WEETING WITH BROOMHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Mound, apparent round barrow, uncovered in tree felling 1992.
33 paces east to west, 36 paces north to south, but much spread. Clear ditch on west fainter on north and perhaps to south, but no ditch on east- here mound joins with slightly higher ground to east. Height from base of west ditch about 1.7m, but only 0.5m on east. However, appears convincing as barrow- may have been infilled to east at some time.
Scatter of natural flints over surface but no artefacts. Formerly under Scots pine, part of Forestry Commision planting in past- outside area of original 19th century plantation of Weeting Park
E. Rose (NLA), 2 November 1992
Photograph (S1) in file.
E. Rose (NLA).
February 2017. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The earthworks of this barrow are visible on the 0.5m resolution Lidar data (S2)[1]. This barrow, along with NHER 33412, NHER 61982, NHER 61983, NHER 61984, and NHER 61985, forms a barrow cemetery (NHER 61986) – which is itself located in close proximity to numerous other barrows, forming a dispersed cemetery landscape group (NHER 61484) in this area.
The earthworks of this low mound are somewhat indistinct on lidar data. A low circular mound 16m in diameter can be discerned, however a much more distinct circular mound appears to sit on top of this within the north-eastern corner. This may represent a later internment or phase of mound augmentation or it may relate to vegetation or spoil from more recent activity. Traces of one, possible two outer ditches are partially visible. A slight outer bank may be visible to the south and north east, although this is less clear.
S. Horlock (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 24 February 2017.
Monument Types
- ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Photograph: FWV 13-15. |
| <S2>XY | LIDAR Airborne Survey: Various. LIDAR Airborne Survey. LIDAR Weeting Forest Research 0.5m DTM 17-JUL-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial). [Mapped feature: #63847 Extent of earthworks based on a LiDAR survey., ENF141031] |
Related records
| 61986 | Part of: Bronze Age round barrow cemetery (Monument) |
| 33412 | Related to: Earthworks of a Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 61985 | Related to: The earthworks of a Neolithic and/or Bronze Age round barrow(s) (Monument) |
| 61982 | Related to: The earthworks of a probable Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 62025 | Related to: The earthworks of a probable Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 61984 | Related to: The earthworks of a probable Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 61983 | Related to: The earthworks of an embanked enclosure and mound, possible Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
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