Record Details

NHER Number:36421
Type of record:Monument
Name:Possible Neolithic and Bronze Age features

Summary

1996 aerial photographs revealed the cropmarks of a possible Neolithic long barrow or burial mound, a ring ditch, trackway and other linear marks.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 1410 2463
Map Sheet:TG12SW
Parish:CAWSTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

26 June 1996. NLA air photography.
Cropmark site showing an elongated oval ditch, which is likely to be the remains of a Neolithic long barrow.
Along the same axis to the southwest is a ring ditch/round barrow.
To the west is a double-ditched linear feature, with a clear northern terminus. It is too narrow to be a cursus-like monument and it is probably a trackway with an unusual end feature.
S. Massey (NLA), 24 August 2001.

15 July 1996. NLA air photography.
Cropmarks of long barrow, ring ditch, trackway and linears still visible.
S. Massey (NLA), 18 October 2001.

Monument Types

  • LINEAR FEATURE (Unknown date)
  • TRACKWAY (Unknown date)
  • LONG BARROW (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • RING DITCH (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status

  • SHINE

Sources and further reading

---Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1996. TG 1424AQ - AR, AW - AX, ABE - ABF.
---Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1996. TG 1424AY - ABD.
---Article in Serial: Massey, S., Brennand, M. and Clare, H. 2003. The National Mapping Programme in Norfolk, 2001-3. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIV Pt II pp 335-344. p 337.

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