Record Details

NHER Number:61571
Type of record:Monument
Name:The site of a possible Bronze Age round barrow

Summary

The slight earthworks of a possible low mound, which is likely to represent a round barrow, is visible 0.5m resolution Lidar data. See NHER 62104 for a round barrow cemetery in this area.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TL 7678 9118
Map Sheet:TL79SE
Parish:WEETING WITH BROOMHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

February 2017. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The slight earthworks of a possible low mound, which is likely to represent a round barrow, is visible on 0.5m resolution Lidar data (S1). See NHER 62104 for a round barrow cemetery in this area.
S. Horlock (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 24 February 2017.

Monument Types

  • MOUND (Unknown date)
  • MOUND (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC?)
  • ROUND BARROW? (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

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

62104Part of: Barrow cemetery (Monument)
11278Related to: Bunker's Hill Bronze Age Bowl Barrow (Monument)
25487Related to: Possible Bronze Age round barrow near Bunker's Hill (Monument)
60120Related to: Probable Bronze Age round barrow at Wellington Plantation, near Bunker's Hill (Monument)
41681Related to: Probable Bronze Age round barrow or mound associated with a quarry (Monument)
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