Record Details
| NHER Number: | 61515 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | The site of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery |
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Summary
The site of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery is indicated by a cluster of up to five possible mounds identified on the ground or on aerial photographs and lidar. This group is located in close proximity to numerous other barrows, forming a dispersed cemetery landscape group (NHER 61484) in this area. The group consists of three convincing round barrows (NHER 4991, 33605 and 56274), and potentially another two newly identified possible mounds (NHER 61513 and NHER 61514), although the latter may relate to later spoil heaps.
Images - none
Location
Full description
October 2016. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The site of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery is indicated by a cluster of up to five possible mounds identified on the ground or on aerial photographs and lidar. This group is located in close proximity to numerous other barrows, forming a dispersed cemetery landscape group (NHER 61484) in this area.
The group consists of three convincing round barrows (NHER 4991, 33605 and 56274) and potentially another two newly identified possible mounds (NHER 61513 and NHER 61514), although the latter may relate to later spoil heaps. To the immediate north of barrow NHER 56274, at TL 7594 9030 on (S1-S2), is a possible circular enclosure of approximately 20m in diameter. Its similar size and positioning in relation to the other barrows, could indicate that it represents another funerary monument. However it was not visible on aerial photographs from later that year (S3-S4) and it was decided that the feature was most likely to relate to relatively recent activity relating to the Second World War use of the heath (NHER 61518).
S. Horlock (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 10 October 2016.
Monument Types
- CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE? (Unknown date)
- BARROW CEMETERY (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE? (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 5119-5120 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> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Various. Vertical Aerial Photograph. RAF/106G/UK/1634 RS 4402-4403 09-JUL-1946 (HEA Original Print). |
| <S4> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Various. Vertical Aerial Photograph. RAF/CPE/UK/1801 RS 3124-3125 25-OCT-1946 (HEA Original Print). |
Related records
| 56274 | Parent of: Earthwork round barrow (Monument) |
| 61513 | Parent of: Earthworks of mound of uncertain date and significance (Monument) |
| 61514 | Parent of: Earthworks of mound of uncertain date and significance (Monument) |
| 4991 | Parent of: Possible Bronze Age round barrow in The Oaks Plantation (Monument) |
| 33605 | Parent of: Probable Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 61484 | Part of: Large dispersed Bronze Age barrow cemetery landscape (Landscape) |