Record Details
| NHER Number: | 50814 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of probable Bronze Age round barrow |
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Summary
The probable site of a Bronze Age round barrow is visible as the cropmarks of a ring ditch on aerial photographs. It forms part of what appears to have been a linear barrow cemetery (NHER 50816), of which this is the northwesternmost visible element.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2731 1583 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG21NE |
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| Parish: | WROXHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
January 2008. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks described below were previously recorded as part of NHER 36447.
An undated ring ditch is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (S1)-(S3), centred at TG 2731 1582. It probably represents the site of a Bronze Age round barrow, part of a linear barrow cemetery (NHER 50816), of which this is the northwesternmost visible element. Its western side may be respected by a linear/curvilinear ditch (part of NHER 50811). At the same time, it should be noted that the cropmarks are rather faint and ill defined, and as such a geological or recent agricultural origin for the ring ditch cannot be entirely ruled out.
The ring ditch is broadly circular, although verging towards oval, in plan, and measures up to 28.5m in diameter.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 22 January 2008.
Monument Types
- RING DITCH (Unknown date)
- RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: BKS. 1988. BKS 0136-7 07-AUG-1988 (NCC 3281-2). |
| <S2> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1990. OS/90224 146-7 31-JUL-1990 (NMR). |
| <S3> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1996. NHER TG 2715H-L (NLA 373/JBF7-10) 19-JUL-1996. |
Related records
| 50816 | Part of: Site of probable Bronze Age linear barrow cemetery (Monument) |
| 50813 | Related to: Site of possible Bronze Age ring ditch (Monument) |
| 36447 | Related to: Site of probable Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |