Record Details
| NHER Number: | 7990 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Bronze Age barrows |
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Summary
Several Bronze Age barrows were observed in the early 19th century. The hundred or sheriff's court may have met here. The barrows were probably destroyed before 1970 by gravel extraction.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2413 1751 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG21NW |
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| Parish: | FRETTENHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Tumuli.
Several tumuli on the common about 16.7m (55 feet) OD, seen not long before 1831 and reported in (S1). One known as Court Hill was excavated in 1855, and nothing was found. However, in the British Museum is a looped and socketed, waisted (unusual type) axe said to have been found in a barrow on Frettenham Common.
Hundred Courts said to have been held here.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).
March 1935. Visit.
Very overgrown with gorse and furze, gravel excavations nearby. Not identifiable with certainly.
R.R. Clarke (NCM), 28 March 1935.
(S2) says sheriff's courts were held here.
E. Rose (NAU).
May 1970.
(S2) describes several barrows.
NCM contains axe from this site.
Destroyed before 1970.
T.H. MckClough (NCM) and E.B. Green (NCM).
No sign in area dug for gravel.
A. Lawson (NAU), June 1975.
Axe. Loop placed to one side. Hollowed oval projections on each side of blade, vestigial flanges. 96mm long.
See (S3), (S4), (S5) and (S6).
Given by [1].
E. Rose (NAU).
DESCHEDULED IN 1972.
(S7) in 1981 say '11.0m in diameter, 0.7m in height. Dug into in the centre and northwest segment destroyed'.
But the mound was totally destroyed before 1970. To what does this refer?
Information from (S7).
R.J. Rickett (NAU), 28 June 1990.
However in November 1983 J. Wymer (NAU) reported a mound 10m from road in good order about 30m diameter and 1m high, but only seen from road.
Did the barrow survive or is this a spoil heap?
E. Rose (NAU), 15 April 1984.
Monument Types
- BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- MOOT? (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Monograph: 1901. The Victoria History of Norfolk. The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Vol 1. p 376. |
| --- | Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1913. Norfolk Barrows. The Antiquary. Vol XLIX pp 416-423. p 419. |
| --- | Designation: [unknown]. Ancient Monuments Form. SAM Record. DNF41. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Publication: Rolfe. Norfolk Illustrations. p 1059. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Frettenham [2]. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Article in Serial: 1859. Appendix. Extracts from the Proceedings of the Committee. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol V pp 357-365. p 357. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Woodward, S. 1831. A descriptive Outline of the Roman remains in Norfolk, by Samuel Woodward, Esq., in a Letter to Hudson Gurney, esq. V.P., F.R.S., accompanied by a Map of the County. Archaeologia. Vol XXIII pp 358-373. pp 370-372. |
| <S2> | Monograph: Bryant, T. H. 1905. Hundred of Taverham. The Churches of Norfolk. Vol XV. p 53. |
| <S3> | Publication: Evans, J. 1881. The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland. p 131. |
| <S4> | Article in Serial: 1849. Proceedings of the Association. Journal of the British Archaeological Association. First Series Vol IV pp 133-159. p 153. |
| <S5> | Serial: Archaeol. Inst Norwich Vol.. Vol XXVI. |
| <S6> | Archive: British Museum. 1913 onwards. Bronze Age Index. |
| <S7> | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 21 NW 1; TG 21 NW 7. |
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