Record Details
| NHER Number: | 3662 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Bronze Age barrow |
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Summary
The site of a circular earthwork, possibly a damaged Bronze Age barrow, recorded in 1938. It has since been ploughed flat, though a slightly raised bump in the field may mark its former presence.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 8550 1981 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF81NE |
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| Parish: | WEASENHAM ALL SAINTS, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Circular earthwork. Platform 1m (3 1/2 feet) high, 18.3m (60 feet) in diameter at top with berm; slight ditch and counterscarp, 39.6m (130 feet) in diameter overall. ?Damaged bell barrow.
Noted in 1938 by A. Q. Watson.
Ploughed in 1941.
No sign in ploughed field.
A. J. Lawson (NAU), 1975.
Sketch in file.
November 1983.
Visible swelling here in rough ploughed field about 0.20m high but similar swelling 60m to south.
J. Wymer (NAU).
Monument Types
- DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- 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
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 81 NE 2. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Weasenham (All Saints). |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Photograph: CXW 11. |
Related records
| 56103 | Part of: Bronze Age Barrow Cemetery, Weasenham Heath (Landscape) |
| 3660 | Related to: Site of Bronze Age barrow, possible Roman cremation, and multi-period finds (Monument) |
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