Record Details
| NHER Number: | 6178 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Bronze Age round barrow |
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Summary
A Bronze Age round barrow was recorded in a ploughed field in the mid 19th century. It was partly excavated in 1924 and Beaker pottery was recovered. More Beaker pottery, a prehistoric flint scraper and charcoal were found at a later date. By 1974 the barrow was no longer visible as an earthwork. In 2003 it was observed as a cropmark.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 0660 4244 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG04SE |
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| Parish: | CLEY NEXT THE SEA, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1924. Tumulus partly excavated.
Yielded degenerate B Beaker - contained nothing but sand.
See (S1), (S2), (S3), (S4) and (S5).
1936. Tumulus on The Hangs, under plough.
75cm (2.5ft) high, 15m (50ft) diameter, remains of shallow ditch.
L. Grinsell and R. R. Clarke (NCM), 1936.
27m to 37m (30 to 40 paces) in diameter.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).
1974. No sign in ploughed field.
A. J. Lawson (NAU), 30 January 1974.
Photograph of beaker (S6) in file.
0.9m (3ft) southwest of the Beaker a patch of black earth and charcoal, about 15cm (6in) deep and roughly 0.9m (1 yard) across was discovered. There were no traces of burnt bone, however. Two small fragments of a larger urn were turned up in the surface soil and a circular scraper was found.
See (S7).
R. J. Rickett (NAU), 1990.
October 2002. Norfolk NMP.
Parchmark and soilmark of ploughed out round barrow visible on OS aerial photographs from 1969 (S8) and BKS vertical aerial photographs from 1988 (S9). The diameter of the ploughed out remains of the mound is 25-6m.
S. Massey (NMP), 23 December 2002.
May 2003. Field observations.
Under plough. Visible as sandy patch.
D. Gurney (NLA), 18 June 2003.
October 2005.
In converting the paced measurement above into metric it has been assumed that 1 pace = 1 yard = 0.914m.
D. Robertson (NLA), 17 October 2005.
Monument Types
- HEARTH (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- CHARCOAL (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC?)
- POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Publication: Clarke, D. L. 1970. Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol 2. No 519; Fig 348. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Cley next the sea. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Cley-next-the-sea. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Publication: Fox, C. 1923. The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region: a topographical study of the Bronze, Early Iron, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon Ages, with an introductory note on the Neolithic Age. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Williams, J. F. 1926. Excavation of a Barrow at Cley-next-the-Sea. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXII pp 207-208. pp 206-208. |
| <S3> | Publication: Clarke, W.G.. MSS 129. |
| <S4> | Article in Serial: [unknown]. Arch.. Vol XIII. |
| <S5> | Map: Bolding, W.J.J.. c.1850. Map of Barrows on Salthouse Heath.. East Anglian Archaeology. Vol 12, plate XI. No 24. |
| <S6> | Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph. |
| <S7> | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 04 SE 7 [4]. |
| <S8> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1969. OS/69037 048-9 03-APR-1969. |
| <S9> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: BKS. 1988. BKS 8327-8 27-MAY-1988 (NCC 0822-3). |
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