Record Details
| NHER Number: | 33412 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Earthworks of a Bronze Age round barrow |
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Summary
The earthworks of a Bronze Age round barrow have been identified on the ground and is also clearly visible on the 0.5m resolution Lidar data. Its northern edge is truncated. This barrow, along with NHER 61982, NHER 61983, NHER 61984, NHER 61985, and NHER 62025 form 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 7950 9080 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL79SE |
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| Parish: | WEETING WITH BROOMHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
22 January 1998. On north edge of mature plantation (compartment 1082).
Mound, quite convincing as a barrow, its north edge partly cut through by ?clearance for Fire Route 47.
D. Gurney (NLA), 23 January 1998.
February 2017. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The earthworks of this barrow are clearly visible on the 0.5m resolution Lidar data (S1) [1]. This barrow, measuring 22.5m across and with traces of an outer ditch, along with NHER 61982, NHER 61983, NHER 61984, and NHER 61985, and NHER 62025, form 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.
S. Horlock (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 24 February 2017.
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>XY | LIDAR Airborne Survey: Various. LIDAR Airborne Survey. LIDAR Lynford Forest Research 0.5m DTM 17-JUL-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial). [Mapped feature: #63857 Extent of earthworks based on a LiDAR survey., ENF141031] |
Related records
| 61986 | Part of: Bronze Age round barrow cemetery (Monument) |
| 29253 | Related to: Bronze Age round barrow, Lord Bradford's Plantation (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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