Record Details
| NHER Number: | 51536 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Probable Bronze Age round barrow |
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Summary
The earthworks of a probable barrow are visible on the ground and on the 0.5m resolution Lidar data. The mound is 25m across and has a clear central pit, possibly the remains of a previous excavation or potentially a Second World War weapons pit. 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 79295 90057 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL79SE |
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| Parish: | WEETING WITH BROOMHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
March or April 2008.
Mound. Possible barrow.
D. Robertson (NLA), 12 May 2008.
April 2008. Field visit, at request of discoverer.
Low mound, about 30m in diameter, about 0.5m high. Possibly a Bronze Age round barrow.
D. Robertson (NLA), 12 May 2008.
February 2017. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The earthworks of this barrow are visible on the 0.5m resolution Lidar data (S1) [1].
The mound is 25m across and has a clear central pit, possibly the remains of a previous excavation or potentially a Second World War weapons pit. 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
- ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- PIT (Post Medieval to 21st Century - 1540 AD to 2100 AD?)
- PIT (Post Medieval to 21st Century - 1540 AD to 2100 AD?)
- WEAPONS PIT? (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD?)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <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: #63941 Extent of earthworks based on a LiDAR survey., ENF141031] |
Related records
| 61484 | Part of: Large dispersed Bronze Age barrow cemetery landscape (Landscape) |