Record Details
| NHER Number: | 6401 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible Bronze Age round barrow |
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Summary
An earthwork mound of unknown date, which may be a Bronze Age round barrow, which was excavated in the 1920s and the 1950s. The mound may be surrounded by a slight ditch.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1974 4021 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG14SE |
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| Parish: | FELBRIGG, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1920 and 1950.
Artificial mound about here dug by J. E. Sainty.
No clear evidence of date or purpose.
R. R. Clarke (NCM)
2 February 1976.
Could not be found in large wood.
A. J. Lawson (NAU)
30 December 1982.
Mound located by [1] and visited by A. J. Lawson (NAU)
Barrow like mound 70ft (22m) diameter and 6ft (2m) high with trenches in T shape in centre, from Sainty's excavation.
In Beech Wood but with few sycamores on mound.
Suspicion of surrounding ditch.
A. J. Lawson (NAU) February 1983.
6 March 1988.
Correct grid reference supply by F. Healy (NAU).
Monument Types
- DITCH (Unknown date)
- MOUND (Unknown date)
- ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | 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 - Miscellaneous. Felbrigg. |
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