Record Details
| NHER Number: | 6102 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Bronze Age round barrow on West Harling Heath |
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Summary
This Bronze Age round barrow stands approximately 2m high and is 36m in diameter. It has been suggested that this barrow and another very close by (NHER 6103) are located next to an ancient trackway. Prehistoric worked flint flakes have been found nearby.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 9607 8320 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL98SE |
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| Parish: | HARLING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
No trees, many flint flakes around. ?On a definite ancient trackway. Circular, approximately 108m (118 paces) circumference, 2.13m (7 feet) high. Honeycombed with rabbit burrows.
H.D. Hewitt, 20 January 1906, 10 and 19 June 1909.
In Forestry Commision plantation before 1958.
T.H. Mack Clough (NCM).
36m diameter, 2m high, covered in trees in plantation.
Marked on (S1).
A.J. Lawson (NAU), 12 February 1976.
March 1993.
Dimensions approximately, but now covered with bracken and scrub in area of felled woodland.
Monument Types
- ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Unpublished Report: Wymer, J. 1988. A Further Report on the Condition of Barrows in the County and the Question of their Preservation. |
| --- | Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1913. Norfolk Barrows. The Antiquary. Vol XLIX pp 416-423. p 423. |
| --- | Publication: Clarke, W. G. 1925. In Breckland Wilds. First Edition. p 186. |
| --- | Designation: [unknown]. Ancient Monuments Form. SAM Record. DNF34. |
| --- | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1824-1836. Ordnance Survey First Edition 1 inch.. |
| --- | Designation: Corbishley, M.. 1982. AM107. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 98 SE 2 [3]. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Unpublished Document: 1999. Scheduled Ancient Monument Management Plan. |
| --- | Photograph: 1909. Tumuli, West Harling. |
| --- | Monograph: Lawson, A.J.. The Barrows of East Anglia.. East Anglian Archaeology. Vol 12 microfiche. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Harling (West). |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Photograph: CXV 28, EMD 6-7. |
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