Record Details
| NHER Number: | 61484 |
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| Type of record: | Landscape |
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| Name: | Large dispersed Bronze Age barrow cemetery landscape |
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Summary
This area contains numerous prehistoric barrows which forms a dispersed funerary landscape. This includes several clusters of Bronze Age round barrows, which form distinct cemetery groups of barrows. Cemetery groups NHER 61535, NHER 61495, NHER 61495, NHER 62104 and NHER 61498 are located within the western part of Weeting and Hockwold parishes whilst cemetery group NHER 61986 is located within the eastern part of Weeting parish. Also within this area are examples of more dispersed and isolated barrows such as NHER 61975, NHER 33316, and NHER 49735.
Images - none
Location
Full description
October 2016. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
This area contains numerous prehistoric barrows which form a dispersed funerary landscape. This includes several clusters of Bronze Age round barrows which form distinct cemetery groups of barrows. Cemetery groups NHER 61535, NHER 61495, NHER 61495, NHER 62104 and NHER 61498 are located within the western part of Weeting and Hockwold parishes whilst cemetery group NHER 61986 is located within the eastern part of Weeting parish. Also within this area are examples of more dispersed and isolated barrows, for example NHER 61975, NHER 33316, and NHER 49735.
S. Horlock (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 10 October 2016.
Monument Types
- BARROW CEMETERY (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources - none
Related records
| 62104 | Parent of: Barrow cemetery (Monument) |
| 61986 | Parent of: Bronze Age round barrow cemetery (Monument) |
| 33704 | Parent of: Cropmark of a probable Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 32249 | Parent of: Cropmarks of possible Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 61527 | Parent of: Earthworks of a mound, possibly a round barrow (Monument) |
| 33315 | Parent of: Earthworks ofa possible damaged round barrow (Monument) |
| 61570 | Parent of: Former earthworks of mounds of uncertain archaeological date and significance (Monument) |
| 5616 | Parent of: Pepper Hill Bronze Age Bowl Barrow (Monument) |
| 33316 | Parent of: Possible Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 62026 | Parent of: Possible earthworks of a Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 62097 | Parent of: Possible earthworks of a Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 62105 | Parent of: Possible mound of uncertain date and significance (Monument) |
| 61988 | Parent of: Possible mound of uncertain date and significance (Monument) |
| 62028 | Parent of: Possible mound of uncertain date and significance (Monument) |
| 62089 | Parent of: Possible mound of uncertain date and significance (Monument) |
| 61989 | Parent of: Possible mound of uncertain date and significance (Monument) |
| 49735 | Parent of: Probable Bronze Age barrow (Monument) |
| 51536 | Parent of: Probable Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 61494 | Parent of: Soilmarks of two possible Bronze Age round barrows (Monument) |
| 61975 | Parent of: The earthworks of a possible Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 61574 | Parent of: The earthworks of a possible Neolithic or Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 61495 | Parent of: The site of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery (Monument) |
| 61515 | Parent of: The site of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery (Monument) |
| 61535 | Parent of: The site of a Neolithic and/or Bronze Age barrow cemetery (Monument) |
| 61498 | Parent of: The site of a possible Bronze Age round barrow cemetery (Landscape) |
| 4995 | Parent of: Two Hills Bronze Age barrows, Mount Ephraim (Revoked) |
| 15525 | Parent of: Wafes Howe Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |