Record Details
| NHER Number: | 53271 |
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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 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 recovered a complete Beaker as well as a variety of other pottery sherds.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2108 0602 |
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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 2108 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 4). Excavations at the site in 1969-70 recovered a complete Beaker as well as a variety of other pottery sherds (NHER 9549; (S6)). They also revealed two concentric ring ditches, measuring 23m and 7.5m in diameter. This contrasts with the aerial photographic evidence and the NMP mapping, which shows a near circular ring ditch measuring approximately 32m in diameter surrounding the remains of a mound and up to two inner ring ditches measuring 19m and 10.5 in diameter. That the inner two ring ditches in fact equate to those excavated, as suggested by Healy (1986 (S6)) remains plausible. As with the adjacent barrow to the east (NHER 53270), the earthworks and cropmarks of the site are confused by those of the World War Two anti-landing trenches (NHER 53254) and other undated ditches (NHER 53272) which overlap the site.
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) |