Record Details
| NHER Number: | 33315 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Earthworks ofa possible damaged round barrow |
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Summary
A rapid identification survey conducted in 1997 recorded a slight mound on this site. A site visit has suggested that it is not a barrow. However the 0.5m DTM lidar data would also suggest the presence of a damaged and denuded barrow. There is evidence of other round barrows surviving within the local vicinity and it seems plausible that this is also a damaged barrow site. This mound is located in close proximity to other barrows (eg. NHER 32249, NHER 61974, and NHER 61975), forming part of a much wider dispersed cemetery landscape group (NHER 61484) in this area. Further inspection based on the new lidar evidence may be beneficial.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 7822 9031 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL79SE |
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| Parish: | WEETING WITH BROOMHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
December 1997. Walkover Survey.
Rapid Earthwork Identification Survey (Compartment 1093).
Noted in advance of destumping:
Slight mound. Possibly a barrow?
See report (S1) for further details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 19 August 2015.
8 December 1997. Field Visit.
Site visited by D.Gurney (NLA).
Not convincing.
D. Gurney (NLA), 9 December 1997.
February 2016. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The earthworks relating to this previously recorded mound are visible on the 0.5m DTM lidar data (S2) [1]. The ‘mound’ appears to consist of two semi-circular mounds, with an additional irregular mound in the centre. Both of these semi-circular mounds would appear to have an outer ditch, and a bank around the northern section. Although it is not entirely clear the lidar evidence would suggest a round mound originally 12m across has been denuded by a modern track running across the central section of the mound. Given the evidence of other round barrows surviving within the local vicinity, it seems plausible that this is also a damaged barrow site.
This mound is located in close proximity to other barrows (eg. NHER 32249, NHER 61974, and NHER 61975), forming part of a much wider dispersed cemetery landscape group (NHER 61484) in this area.
Further inspection based on the new lidar evidence may be beneficial.
S. Horlock (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 10 February 2016.
Monument Types
- MOUND (Unknown date)
- MOUND (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC?)
- ROUND BARROW? (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Pendleton, C. and Sommers, M. 1998. Rapid Earthwork Identification Survey. Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service. 98/25. |
| <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: #63855 Extent of earthworks based on a LiDAR survey., ENF141031] |
Related records
| 61484 | Part of: Large dispersed Bronze Age barrow cemetery landscape (Landscape) |
| 61574 | Related to: The earthworks of a possible Neolithic or Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
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