Record Details

NHER Number:4555
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of possible Bronze Age barrow, prehistoric flint flakes

Summary

This is the approximate area of what is thought to be a destroyed Bronze Age barrow from which a number of prehistoric flint flakes have been recovered.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 790 097
Map Sheet:TF70NE
Parish:SWAFFHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

Approximate area of destroyed barrow. Flint flakes etc 14 March 1954.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

No sign of barrow in field of young cereal or small plantation.
A. J. Lawson (NAU), 15 March 1976.

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 - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 70 NE 21.
---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. Swaffham.

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