Record Details
| NHER Number: | 7374 |
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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 rather flattened remains of a Bronze Age bowl barrow, standing about 1.5m high but badly damaged by rabbits.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 9065 9410 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL99SW |
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| Parish: | TOTTINGTON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
25 November 1975.
Bowl barrow.
22m in diameter, 1.5m high. One small birch on mound, on corner of heath. Much dug into by rabbits.
A. J. Lawson (NAU).
Described by H. D. Hewitt as 95 paces in circumference, 1.5m (5 feet) high, on 22 May 1909.
110 paces in circumference, 37 paces in diameter on 27 July 1935 by H. D. Hewitt.
A good many flakes on or near, also burnt flint. No ditch, no hollow in top, no bracken. Usual plain rather badly flattened bowl. Badly burrowed by rabbits.
E. Rose (NAU).
September 1983.
Steep sided mound. Grass with birch on west side plus some gorse. Old slight depression in centre. No star post.
J. Wymer (NAU).
September 1985.
No change.
J. Wymer (NAU).
October 1988.
Star post erected.
J. Wymer (NAU).
Monument Types
- ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: RE 21, CXU 7. |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: RESTRICTED TL9094T, E. |
| --- | Designation: [unknown]. Ancient Monuments Form. SAM Record. DNF480. |
| --- | 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. 7718. |
| --- | 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. |
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