Record Details

NHER Number:6652
Type of record:Monument
Name:Bronze Age burial mound

Summary

This small Bronze Age burial mound is located on the Edgefield to Plumstead Road and appears to be very similar in form and date to the mounds on Salthouse Heath.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 1171 3449
Map Sheet:TG13SW
Parish:PLUMSTEAD, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

The monument is located on the Edgefield to Plumstead Road, roughly 67m (220ft) OD on the north side, 64m (70yds) from the fence where heath commences on west and 16.5m (18yds) from the road.
A low tumulus, 3.6m (4yds) in diameter, about 30cm (1ft) high was recorded.
(This tumulus appears very similar to the early Iron Age tumuli on Salthouse Heath - A. Q. Watson.)
No sign of mound on snow covered pasture.
A. J. Lawson (NAU) 25 January 1976.

The Salthouse mounds are now thought to be Bronze Age.
E. Rose (NAU/NLA).

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status - none

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 - Bronze Age. Plumstead.
<S1>Monograph: Lawson, A. J., Martin, E., Priddy, D. and Taylor, A. 1981. The Barrows of East Anglia. East Anglian Archaeology. No 12.

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