Record Details
| NHER Number: | 53403 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age barrow cemetery |
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Summary
The site of a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age round barrow cemetery is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs; some of the ring ditches making up the cemetery (NHER 6099, 52481-2) have also been excavated. The cemetery occupies a west-facing slope overlooking the confluence of the Rivers Yare and Tas, and appears to have been fairly large and dispersed, comprising at least five and perhaps seven or more barrows. The excavation of individual barrows within the cemetery has demonstrated that it was used for both inhumation and cremation burial between the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. Linear features in the surrounding area are part of a large group of ditched boundaries (NHER 52489) which appear to represent several phases of field systems and trackways. Most if not all of these are likely to post-date the cemetery site, and various elements seem to slight or respect the individual barrows.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2415 0542 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG20NW |
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| Parish: | BIXLEY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
April 2010. Norfolk NMP.
The site of a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age round barrow cemetery is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs (S1)-(S4) (see records of individual barrows for more detailed list of sources), centred at TG 2412 0544. The cemetery occupies a west-facing slope overlooking the confluence of the Rivers Yare and Tas, and appears to have been fairly large and dispersed, comprising at least five and perhaps seven or more barrows. Some of the ring ditches making up the cemetery (NHER 6099, 52481-2) were excavated in advance of the construction of the Norwich Southern Bypass (S5). The results demonstrated that the cemetery was used for both inhumation and cremation burial between the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. Linear features in the surrounding area are part of a large group of ditched boundaries (NHER 52489) which appear to represent several phases of field systems and trackways. Most if not all of these are likely to post-date the cemetery site, and various elements seem to slight or respect the individual barrows.
The cemetery extends across an area measuring approximately 430m by 234m. There is no clear patterning to the barrows, all of which are broadly circular in plan and range from 18m to 39m in diameter.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 12 April 2010.
Monument Types
- ROUND BARROW (Unknown date)
- BARROW CEMETERY (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- ROUND BARROW (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 20 NW 289. |
| <S1> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. 1970. CUCAP (BCB69) 16-JUN-1970. |
| <S2> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. 1974. CUCAP (BPV29-30) 04-JUN-1974. |
| <S3> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1989. NHER TG 2405ACK (NLA 223/DHX9) 15-JUN-1989. |
| <S4> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1974. NHER TG 2405G (NLA 1/SLIDE) 07-JUN-1974. |
| <S5> | Monograph: Ashwin, T. and Bates S. 2000. Norwich Southern Bypass, Part I: Excavations at Bixley, Caistor St Edmund, Trowse. East Anglian Archaeology. No 91. |
Related records
| 52481 | Parent of: Site of a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 52482 | Parent of: Site of Early Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 6099 | Parent of: Site of Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 52485 | Parent of: Site of medieval or post medieval post mill, and perhaps also of Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 52488 | Parent of: Site of possible Bronze Age ring ditch (Monument) |
| 52486 | Parent of: Site of possible Bronze Age ring ditch (Monument) |
| 52483 | Parent of: Site of probable Late Neolithic to Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |