Record Details
| NHER Number: | 50646 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Bronze Age round barrow cemetery |
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Summary
A group of round barrows are visible on aerial photographs of the Warren, Lenwade, indicating the presence of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery (NHER 7718, 7729-30, 50622). A Neolithic oval barrow may underlie one of these barrows (NHER 7718). The cemetery is positioned to the immediate south of the River Wensum, possibly on the edge of the river terrace and base of the valley side. Only one of these barrows still exists as an earthwork (NHER 7718), a penannular bank (NHER 7730) also still surviving could also indicate another former barrow site.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 11398 18060 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG11NW |
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| Parish: | WESTON LONGVILLE, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
October 2007. Norfolk NMP.
A group of round barrows are visible on aerial photographs of the Warren, Lenwade, indicating the presence of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery (NHER 7718, 7729-30, 40622) (S1-S7). The site is centred on TG 1138 1804. The cemetery is positioned to the immediate south of the River Wensum, possibly on the edge of the river terrace and base of the valley side. Only one of these barrows still exists as an earthwork (NHER 7718), a penannular bank (NHER 7730) also still surviving could also indicate another former barrow site. This positioning of valley side and terrace edge is mirrored by another barrow group approximately 6km to the east at Sparham (NHER 30639). These barrows at Lenwade are likely to have originally formed part of a dispersed cemetery (NHER 7728) said to have contained up to eleven barrows on Morton Common (exact location unknown).
A Neolithic oval barrow may underlie one of these barrows (NHER 7718), possibly suggesting the cemetery developed in the Bronze Age around an earlier monument dating to the Neolithic. Further fieldwork would be needed to ascertain the date and relationship of the mounds.
S. Massey (NMP), 22 October 2007.
Monument Types
- BARROW CEMETERY (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC?)
- BARROW CEMETERY (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: USAAF. 1944. US/7PH/GP/LOC298 5013 20-APR-1944 (NMR). |
| <S2> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/LA/218 1002-3 15-APR-1945 (NMR). |
| <S3> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/LA/218 2002-3 13-MAR-1945 (NMR). |
| <S4> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 3G/TUD/UK/51 5073-4 31-JAN-1946 (NMR). |
| <S5> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1951. RAF 58/651 4318-9 24-APR-1951 (NMR). |
| <S6> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Meridian Airmaps Limited. 1971. MAL 71020 074-5 11-APR-1971 (NMR). |
| <S7> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1990. OS/90224 026-7 31-JUL-1990 (NMR). |
Related records
| 7728 | Parent of: Bronze Age barrows on Morton Common (Monument) |
| 7718 | Parent of: Bronze Age round barrow with possible Neolithic precursor, the Warren (Monument) |
| 50622 | Parent of: Pair of possible Bronze Age round barrows (Monument) |
| 7730 | Parent of: Possible Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 7729 | Parent of: Site of a possible Bronze Age barrow (Monument) |
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