Record Details
NHER Number: | 21966 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | Site of Brents Hills, Branthills Farm |
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Summary
A mound marked 'Brents Hills' is marked at this location on a map of 1590. The mound, which is no longer visible, may have been a Bronze Age round barrow.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TF 901 406 |
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Map Sheet: | TF94SW |
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Parish: | HOLKHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1590. Barrow?
(S1) shows knoll here marked as Brents Hills.
Illustration is identical to Catte Hill (NHER 12585) and Howe Hill (NHER 1790) both of which are supposed to be barrows. The name presumably derives from 'burnt hills', so is this a barrow?
E. Rose (NAU) 22 November 1985.
Monument Types
- MOUND (Unknown date)
- ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
--- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
<S1> | Map: Clerke, T. 1590. The Description of the lordeshippe or mannor of Holkeham as the same lyethe within the meetes and boundes in the countie of Norfolke [Map of Holkham parish]. |
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