Record Details
| NHER Number: | 56274 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Earthwork round barrow |
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Summary
The earthworks of a probable round barrow have been identified on the ground and are also visible on aerial photographs and 0.5m resolution Lidar data. This barrow, along with NHER 4991 and NHER 33605, form a small barrow cemetery (NHER 61515) which is itself located in close proximity to numerous other barrows, forming a dispersed cemetery landscape group (NHER 61484) in this area. See also NHER 61513 and NHER 61514 for two possible additional mounds of uncertain date and significance.
Images - none
Location
Full description
November 2011. Field visit.
A low mound, about 30m in diameter and about 1m high. Most probably a Bronze Age round barrow, especially given the proximity of other probable burial mounds to the north and south (including NHER 4991, NHER 32594, NHER 33453 and NHER 33454).
D. Robertson (HES), 24 November 2011.
October 2016. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The earthworks of this barrow are visible on aerial photographs (S1)-(S2) and 0.5m resolution Lidar data (S3) [1].
The earthworks of this low mound are somewhat indistinct on lidar data, but it is possible that a low surrounding bank to the northwest and southeast, and traces of a slight ditch, may be detected – although this is not certain. A possible outer bank may be discerned on (S1).
This barrow, along with NHER 4991 and NHER 33605, form a small barrow cemetery (NHER 61515) which is itself located in close proximity to numerous other barrows, forming a dispersed cemetery landscape group (NHER 61484) in this area. See also NHER 61513 and NHER 61514 for two possible additional mounds of uncertain date and significance.
S. Horlock (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 10 October 2016.
Monument Types
- ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Various. Vertical Aerial Photograph. RAF/3G/TUD/UK/59 V x5119-5120 05-FEB-1946 (HEA Original Print). |
| <S2> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Various. Vertical Aerial Photograph. RAF/3G/TUD/UK/101 RV 6238-6239 30-MAR-1946 (HEA Original Print). |
| <S3> | 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
| 61515 | Part of: The site of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery (Monument) |
| 4991 | Related to: Possible Bronze Age round barrow in The Oaks Plantation (Monument) |
| 33605 | Related to: Probable Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |