Record Details
| NHER Number: | 41681 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Probable Bronze Age round barrow or mound associated with a quarry |
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Summary
In 1997 a small mound was noted on this site, with a clear ditch and bank to the northern side. It could be the remains of a Bronze Age round barrow or associated with the quarry to the southwest. The fact that the ditch and bank would appear to post-date a probable post-medieval bank and/or road (NHER 5002) would suggest the latter.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 76948 91140 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL79SE |
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| Parish: | WEETING WITH BROOMHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
8 December 1997. Visited by D. Gurney (NLA).
Small mound, as noted, with clear ditch and bank on the north side.
Small trees on mound recently felled, except for one.
D. Gurney (NLA), 9 December 1997.
Formerly recorded erroneously under NHER 25487, which is nearby.
May 2005. No change since 1997.
D. Gurney (NLA), 11 May 2005.
April 2008. Field visit and meeting to consider management and interpretation.
Possibly a Bronze Age barrow, although it could be a landscape feature.
D. Robertson (NLA), 9 May 2008.
July 2013. Field visit.
The mound is very similar in appearance to earthworks associated with the large quarry to the southwest (NHER 41681). As a result, it is high likely it is a quarrying feature rather than a burial mound.
D. Robertson (HES), 14 August 2013.
September 2016. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The earthworks of this previously recorded mound are clearly visible on the Lidar data (S1) [1]. The relationship of this mound with the probable post-medieval bank and/or road to the north (NHER 5002) would suggest that it is not prehistoric barrow, as the ditch seems to cut into this feature, and a slight upcast bank following the line of the ditch, appears to sit upon it. Although this would need to be checked on the ground.
S. Horlock (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 21 September 2016.
Monument Types
- MOUND (Unknown date)
- ROUND BARROW? (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- MOUND (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD?)
- SPOIL HEAP? (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD?)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Archive: Norfolk Monuments Management Project File. |
| <S1>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: #63912 Extent of earthworks based on a LiDAR survey., ENF141031] |
Related records
| 62104 | Part of: Barrow cemetery (Monument) |
| 11278 | Related to: Bunker's Hill Bronze Age Bowl Barrow (Monument) |
| 25487 | Related to: Possible Bronze Age round barrow near Bunker's Hill (Monument) |
| 60120 | Related to: Probable Bronze Age round barrow at Wellington Plantation, near Bunker's Hill (Monument) |
| 61571 | Related to: The site of a possible Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
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