Record Details

NHER Number:61498
Type of record:Landscape
Name:The site of a possible Bronze Age round barrow cemetery

Summary

The site of a probable Bronze Age round barrow cemetery is indicated by a cluster of up to ten mounds identified on the 0.5m resolution Lidar data (NHER 61485 to NHER 61392) or on the ground (NHER 33623, NHER 33624). The possible barrows all range in size from 10m to 18m across. The group is located in close proximity to numerous other barrows, forming a dispersed cemetery landscape group (NHER 61484) in this area.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TL 7678 9044
Map Sheet:TL79SE
Parish:HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

September 2016. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The site of a probable Bronze Age round barrow cemetery is indicated by a cluster of up to ten mounds identified on the 0.5m resolution Lidar data (NHER 61485 - NHER 61392) or on the ground (NHER 33623, NHER33624). The possible barrows all range in size from 10m to 18m across. The group is located in close proximity to numerous other barrows, forming a dispersed cemetery landscape group (NHER 61484) in this area.
S. Horlock (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 29 September 2016.

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status - none

Sources - none

Related records

61490Parent of: Earthworks of uncertain date and archaeological significance (Monument)
61491Parent of: Earthworks of uncertain date and archaeological significance (Monument)
33623Parent of: Probable Bronze Age round barrow (Monument)
33624Parent of: Probable Bronze Age round barrow (Monument)
61485Parent of: The site of a possible Bronze Age round barrow (Monument)
61486Parent of: The site of a possible Bronze Age round barrow (Monument)
61487Parent of: The site of a possible Bronze Age round barrow (Monument)
61488Parent of: The site of a possible Bronze Age round barrow (Monument)
61489Parent of: The site of a possible Bronze Age round barrow (Monument)
61492Parent of: The site of a possible mound, potentially a Bronze Age round barrow (Monument)
61572Parent of: The site of two possible mounds of uncertain archaeological significance (Monument)
61484Part of: Large dispersed Bronze Age barrow cemetery landscape (Landscape)
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