Record Details

NHER Number:21966
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of Brents Hills, Branthills Farm

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
Map Sheet:TF94SW
Parish:HOLKHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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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