Record Details
| NHER Number: | 53270 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Bronze Age round barrow, part of linear cemetery NHER 9549 |
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Summary
A Bronze Age round barrow previously surviving as a low earthwork was subject to partial excavation prior to its levelling in advance of the construction of a playing field. It is visible as an earthwork and cropmark on aerial photographs and forms part of a linear barrow cemetery (NHER 9549) on what was once Eaton Heath. The excavations revealed the remains of a shallow coffin of organic material and sherds of Beaker pottery.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2116 0603 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG20NW |
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| Parish: | NORWICH, NORWICH, NORFOLK |
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Full description
June 2010. Norfolk NMP.
A Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a low earthwork and cropmark on aerial photographs (S1)-(S5), centred at TG 2116 0602. It forms part of a linear round barrow cemetery, NHER 9549, under which record all previous information concerning the site is held (the barrow was formerly recorded as context 3). Excavations at the site in 1969-70 revealed the remains of a shallow coffin of organic material and sherds of possibly Beaker pottery (NHER 9549; (S6)). As mapped by the NMP the barrow comprises a circular ring ditch measuring 35m in diameter, separated by a substantial berm from a second ring ditch and a mound measuring approximately 16m in diameter. The small size of the mound is in contrast with the findings of the exaction (S6), but the barrow seems to occupy a small knoll and is difficult to distinguish precisely from this topographic feature. In addition, the site is overlain by the remains of World War Two anti-landing trenches (NHER 53254), confusing what is visible on the photographs (and, presumably, what was revealed by the excavations).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 23 June 2010.
Monument Types
- ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/772 6069-70 06-SEP-1945 (NMR). |
| <S2> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1947. RAF CPE/UK/2003 5110-2 14-APR-1947 (NMR). |
| <S3> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1953. RAF 82/759 305-6 09-APR-1953 (NMR). |
| <S4> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. 1959. NHER TG 2106A-D (CUCAP ZP85-8) 04-JUL-1959. |
| <S5> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Meridian Airmaps Limited. 1961. MAL 61500 95833-4 30-AUG-1961 (NMR). |
| <S6> | Article in Monograph: Healy, F. 1986. The Excavation of Two Early Bronze Age Round Barrows on Eaton Heath, Norwich, 1969-1970. Barrow Excavations in Norfolk, 1950-82. East Anglian Archaeology. Lawson, A. J. et al.. No 29 pp 50-58. |
Related records
| 9549 | Part of: Bronze Age linear barrow cemetery (Monument) |