Record Details
| NHER Number: | 43931 |
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| Type of record: | Landscape |
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| Name: | Garboldisham Bronze Age barrow cemetery |
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Summary
A possible Bronze Age barrow cemetery exists on Garboldisham Heath. One round barrow survives (NHER 6112), one has been destroyed (NHER 6113) and two possible round barrows are recorded (NHER 10290 and 14423).
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 99008 81962 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL98SE |
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| Parish: | GARBOLDISHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
A possible barrow cemetery on Garboldisham Heath.
It includes a surviving barrow (NHER 6112) and the site of a destroyed barrow (NHER 6113). It could include a possible round barrow recorded on 19th century maps (NHER 10290) and a ring ditch recorded on aerial photographs (NHER 14423).
The area surrounding the surviving barrow may have been disturbed during gravel quarrying and by military activity during World War One.
D. Robertson (NLA), 1 March 2006.
Monument Types
- BARROW CEMETERY (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources - none
Related records
| 6112 | Related to: Bronze Age round barrow and cremation, known as 'Soldier's Hill' and 'Boadicea's Grave' (Monument) |
| 14423 | Related to: Cropmarks of possible Bronze Age ring ditch and undated enclosure (Monument) |
| 10290 | Related to: Possible Bronze Age barrow (Monument) |
| 6113 | Related to: Site of Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |