Record Details
| NHER Number: | 61574 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | The earthworks of a possible Neolithic or Bronze Age round barrow |
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Summary
The earthworks of an oval mound, potentially representing the remains of a Neolithic or Bronze Age round barrow, are visible on the 0.5m resolution Lidar data. The oval shape could indicate a Neolithic date. Neolithic finds have also been found nearby (eg. NHER 25522). The mound has an angular pit cut into its eastern side. This may relate to extraction or twentieth-century military activity. See NHER 61975 for similar nearby features. This mound is located in close proximity to other barrows (eg. NHER 33315 & 61975), forming part of a much wider dispersed cemetery landscape group (NHER 61484) in this area.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 7816 8993 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL78NE |
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| Parish: | WEETING WITH BROOMHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
February 2017. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The earthworks of an oval mound, potentially representing the remains of a Neolithic or Bronze Age round barrow, are visible on the 0.5m resolution Lidar data (S1).
The mound is 18m by 11m. The oval shape could indicate a Neolithic date. Neolithic finds have also been recovered nearby (eg. NHER 25522). The mound has an angular pit cut into its eastern side. This may relate to extraction or twentieth-century military activity. See NHER 61975 for similar nearby features.
This mound is located in close proximity to other barrows (eg. NHER 33315 & 61975), forming part of a much wider dispersed cemetery landscape group (NHER 61484) in this area.
S. Horlock (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 24 February 2017.
Monument Types
- MOUND (Unknown date)
- PIT (Unknown date)
- MOUND (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC? to 701 BC?)
- OVAL BARROW? (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
- ROUND BARROW? (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- PIT (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD?)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | LIDAR Airborne Survey: Various. LIDAR Airborne Survey. LIDAR Weeting Forest Research 0.5m DTM 17-JUL-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial). |
Related records
| 61484 | Part of: Large dispersed Bronze Age barrow cemetery landscape (Landscape) |
| 33315 | Related to: Earthworks ofa possible damaged round barrow (Monument) |
| 61975 | Related to: The earthworks of a possible Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |