Record Details
| NHER Number: | 44844 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Bronze Age barrow cemetery |
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Summary
A Bronze Age barrow cemetery is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. This is a group record comprising seven definite ring ditch cropmarks (NHER 11587-8, 17275-6, 36361, 44836-7) and eight possible ring ditches (NHER 36360, 44833-5, 44837, 44845-6). In addition to these are cropmarks of a large sub-circular enclosure of possible Neolithic to Bronze Age date (NHER 11588), a possible Neolithic long barrow (NHER 44843) and an undated kidney-shaped enclosure (NHER 44838).
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 34414 93107 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM39SW |
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| Parish: | BROOME, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
July 2006. Norfolk NMP
A Bronze Age barrow cemetery is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. This is a group record comprising 7 definite ring ditch cropmarks (NHER 11587-8, 17275-6, 36361, 44836-7) and 8 possible ring ditches (NHER 36360, 44833-5, 44837, 44845-6). In addition to these are cropmarks of a large sub-circular enclosure of possible Neolithic to Bronze Age date (NHER 11588), a possible Neolithic long barrow (NHER 44843) and an undated kidney-shaped enclosure (NHER 44838). The main part of the cemetery is located on a roughly southwest to northeast aligned spur of land at about 20m OD. Further possible ring ditch cropmarks extend to the southeast of the ridge into a shallow valley. The large sub-circular enclosure of possible Neolithic date occupies a prime position at the southwest end of the spur and may have provided the focus for the cemetery. The spur on which the cemetery sits faces a small stream valley to the west of which is another barrow cemetery (NHER 11675).
J. Albone (NMP), 11 July 2006
Monument Types
- BARROW CEMETERY (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
- SHINE
- SHINE
- SHINE
- SHINE
- SHINE
- SHINE
- SHINE
- SHINE
- SHINE
Sources - none
Related records
| 11587 | Parent of: Cropmark of a possible Bronze Age ring ditch (Monument) |
| 36361 | Parent of: Cropmark of a possible Bronze Age ring ditch (Monument) |
| 36360 | Parent of: Cropmark of a possible Bronze Age ring ditch (Monument) |
| 44836 | Parent of: Cropmark of a possible Bronze Age ring ditch (Monument) |
| 17275 | Parent of: Cropmark of possible Bronze Age ring ditch (Monument) |
| 44833 | Parent of: Cropmark of possible Bronze Age ring ditch (Monument) |
| 17276 | Parent of: Cropmark of undated ring ditch (Monument) |
| 44845 | Parent of: Cropmarks of a possible Bronze Age ring ditch (Monument) |
| 44846 | Parent of: Cropmarks of a possible Bronze Age ring ditch (Monument) |
| 44834 | Parent of: Cropmarks of possible Bronze Age ring ditch (Monument) |
| 44835 | Parent of: Cropmarks of two possible Bronze Age ring ditches (Monument) |
| 44837 | Parent of: Cropmarks of two possible Bronze Age ring ditches (Monument) |
| 11588 | Parent of: Cropmarks of undated or prehistoric sub-circular enclosure and multiple ring ditch (Monument) |
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