Record Details
| NHER Number: | 7373 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | One of two Bronze Age round barrows on Flag Heath |
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Summary
The remains of a Bronze Age bowl barrow standing about 1.5m high on open heathland. It is on land within the Stanford Battle Training Area and has been a little damaged by trench-digging.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 9110 9406 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL99SW |
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| Parish: | TOTTINGTON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Bowl barrow about 548m (600 yards) from Peddars Way and 274m (300 yards) from Tottington to Hockham road (no, only about 74m 80 yds).
Circular, 66 paces in circumference, 1.7m (5 1/2 feet) high (corrected to 81 paces, about 25m (27 yards)
Circumcerence, 27 paces in diameter. Flat top, slight ). Many unpatinated flint flakes, no trees , depression in top towards northeast. Open heath, no bracken. No ditch but slope changes, upper part being much steeper than NHER 7374. Looks a much taller mound owing to steepest sides. Flattened surround, no trace of ditch. There appear to be several slight eminances of ground near, notably a circular one about 137m (150 yards) to east and an indefinite one to the south which may be remains of other tumuli. Badly burrowed by rabbits.
H. D. Hewitt, 26 January 1907, corrected 27 August 1935.
28m in diameter, 1.5m high, covered with bracken and grass on open heath west of small plantation.
A. J. Lawson (NAU), 25 September 1975, (S1), (S2).
June 1982. Recent trenches dug on north and south sides and refilled and returfed, presumably by soldiers. No Ministry of Defence monument sign. Information from M. Corbishley.
E. Rose (NAU).
Ancient Monument Description (S3) in file.
September 1983. Covered in grass and bracken. Army trench on south backfilled, traces of others. No star post.
J. Wymer (NAU).
September 1985. Further mutilation backfilled and turfed on north and perhaps centre.
J. Wymer (NAU).
October 1988. No further damage. Star post up.
J. Wymer (NAU).
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
| --- | Photograph: RE 23, CXU 8-9. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 99 SW 2 [2]; TL 99 SW 7. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Monograph: Lawson, A. J., Martin, E., Priddy, D. and Taylor, A. 1981. The Barrows of East Anglia. East Anglian Archaeology. No 12. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Tottington. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1913. Norfolk Barrows. The Antiquary. Vol XLIX pp 416-423. p 422. |
| <S3> | Designation: [unknown]. Ancient Monuments Form. SAM Record. DNF480. |
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