Record Details

NHER Number:3627
Type of record:Monument
Name:Bronze Age round barrow

Summary

A Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a slight earthwork. Prehistoric flint flakes have been found on the site.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 8094 2525
Map Sheet:TF82NW
Parish:WEST RUDHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

20 January 1955.
Mound situated about 137m southwest of long barrow, see NHER 3611.
This is a low tumulus covered in bracken, about 9m diameter, 61cm high.
Much disturbed by rabbits.
Flakes.
R. R. Clarke (NCM)

Common ploughed in 1935.

No sign under young crop.
A. J. Lawson (NAU) 7 February 1974.

Monument Types

  • ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---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. Rudham (West).

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