Record Details
| NHER Number: | 49735 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Probable Bronze Age barrow |
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Summary
The earthworks of probable Bronze Age round barrow are visible on the 0.5m resolution Lidar data and have been identified on the ground. This barrow is 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 79254 90379 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL79SE |
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| Parish: | WEETING WITH BROOMHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
December 2006. Field visit, after the site was identified by Forestry Commission staff.
Located in Crescent Wood, just to the east of a forestry track. The mapped location is approximate as the handheld GPS unit used did not work under the forest canopy.
A circular mound survives as an earthwork. It is about 20m in diameter and is up to 1m high.
It is probably a Bronze Age round barrow.
D. Robertson (NLA), 11 April 2007.
February 2017. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The earthworks of this barrow are visible on the 0.5m resolution Lidar data (S2) [1].
The mound appears to be up to 27m across, although a break in the profile can been at 20m which is the previously recorded dimension. A wide outer ditch and traces of an outer bank are visible. This barrow is 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
| --- | Article in Serial: Robertson, D. & Paterson, H.. 2010. The Norfolk Monuments Management Project 1990-2010. Twenty Years Conserving the County's Rural Historic Environment.. Norfolk Archaeology. XLVI, pp 15-28. |
| <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: #63940 Extent of earthworks based on a LiDAR survey., ENF141031] |
Related records
| 61484 | Part of: Large dispersed Bronze Age barrow cemetery landscape (Landscape) |
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