Record Details
| NHER Number: | 4560 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Bronze Age round barrow |
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Summary
This is the site of a Bronze Age round barrow, close to a road.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 7645 0449 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF70SE |
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| Parish: | BEACHAMWELL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Tumulus.
Situated west side of road from Shingham to Langwade Green, about a furlong south of Shingham Farm on a piece of rough ground 18m (20 yards) from road. Diameter 36m (40 yards), height about 1.3m (4 1/2 feet). Covered bushes and
bracken etc.
A. Q. Watson (NCM) 1937 to 8.
Marked on 1st edition 1inch OS. See (S1).
36m diam, 60cm high, ploughed.
A. J. Lawson January 1976.
Monument Types
- ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Unpublished Report: Wymer, J. 1988. A Further Report on the Condition of Barrows in the County and the Question of their Preservation. |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: TF7604A. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 70 SE 2 [3]. |
| --- | 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. Beechamwell. |
| --- | Slide: Various. Slide. |
| --- | Photograph: CXT 10-11, EMD 15. |
| <S1> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1824-1836. Ordnance Survey First Edition 1 inch.. |
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