Record Details

NHER Number:55864
Type of record:Landscape
Name:Probable dispersed Bronze Age barrow cemetery

Summary

A group of six ring ditches visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs probably represent the remains of a Bronze Age barrow cemetery.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 7333 2015
Map Sheet:TF72SW
Parish:GAYTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

A group of six ring ditches visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs probably represent the remains of a Bronze Age barrow cemetery.
This may relate to another Bronze Age barrow cemetery further to the south (NHER 55861) which comprises 12 further ring ditches.
A. Cattermole (HES), 25 July 2011.

Monument Types

  • BARROW CEMETERY (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status

  • SHINE
  • SHINE

Sources - none

Related records

15402Parent of: Possible Bronze Age ring ditch (Monument)
15403Parent of: Possible Bronze Age ring ditch (Monument)
29465Parent of: Possible Bronze Age ring ditch (Monument)
17470Parent of: Possible reused Bronze Age ring ditch (Monument)
54912Parent of: Possible ring ditch of unknown date (Monument)
54913Parent of: Possible ring ditch of unknown date (Monument)
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