Record Details
| NHER Number: | 5745 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of possible Bronze Age round barrow, Gallows Hill |
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Summary
This one of two mounds that stood on Gallows Hill (see also NHER 5744). It may have been a Bronze Age round barrow. By the early 20th century it had been heavily eroded and by the 1970s no longer survived as an earthwork. An 18th century map marks a set of gallows atop one of the two mounds, hence the name Gallows Hill.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 8643 8470 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL88SE |
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| Parish: | THETFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Visited by H.D. Hewitt on 24 September 1903 and 2 December 1909.
?Barrow. One of two mounds on Gallows Hill (see also NHER 5744).
See (S1) and (S2).
Only 15cm (6 inches) high, fourteen paces diameter.
A gallows is marked on one of these mounds by (S3).
Copy of NCM card by R.R. Clarke (NCM).
No sign in fallow field.
A. J. Lawson (NAU), 11 February 1976.
(S4) suggests there may be some confusion between this mound and NHER 5744.
E. Rose (NAU), 7 July 1986.
January 2011. Norfolk NMP.
This site was not visible on the available aerial photographs.
E. Bales (NMP), 19 Jan 2011.
August 2014. Field visit.
This barrow mound did not survive as an earthwork when the adjacent barrow (NHER 5744; S4) was excavated in the 1970s. After these excavations, a landscape mound was created on the site. The removal of some of this landscape mound prior to 20 August 2014 may have removed below ground remains associated with this barrow.
D. Robertson (HES), 11 September 2014.
September 2014.
A re-examination of the available aerial photographs suggests that two possible mound features may be visible as parchmarks on photographs from 1946 (S5) (J.Albone pers.comm.). These may relate to the round barrows NHER 5744 and 5745 but it was not possible to be certain of this.
E. Ford (NMP), 03 Sept 2014.
Monument Types
- MOUND (Unknown date)
- ROUND BARROW? (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
- GALLOWS? (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 88 SE 9 [5]. |
| --- | 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. Thetford. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1913. Norfolk Barrows. The Antiquary. Vol XLIX pp 416-423. p 422. |
| <S2> | Publication: Clarke, W. G. 1925. In Breckland Wilds. First Edition. p 186. |
| <S3> | Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797. |
| <S4> | Article in Monograph: Lawson, A. J. and Le Hegarat, R. 1986. The Excavation of a Mound on Gallows Hill, Thetford, 1978-9. Barrow Excavations in Norfolk, 1950-82. East Anglian Archaeology. Lawson, A. J. et al.. Vol 29, pp 65-69. |
| <S5> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF CPE/UK/1801 3136-7 25-OCT-1946 (NHER TL 8684A-B). |
Related records
| 5744 | Related to: Roman mound (possibly a barrow) and post medieval gallows, Gallows Hill (Monument) |
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