Record Details
| NHER Number: | 5027 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Bronze Age round barrow 300m east southeast of Buckenham Tofts |
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Summary
A large Bronze Age round barrow. Prehistoric flint flakes have been found on the site.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 8468 9598 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL89NW |
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| Parish: | HILBOROUGH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Bowl barrow.
Ploughed and covered in flint flakes, see (S1).
'R.C.C. I iv 35', which are otherwise uncommon in area.
Unexcavated.
Slight rise covered with gorse on heath near wood.
About 45m diameter, 1m high,
A.J. Lawson (NAU) 26 November 1975.
See NHER 5206.
R.R. Clarke's (NCM) original dimensions were 36m(40 paces) diameter and 0.6m (2ft) high, no visible ditch.
E. Rose (NAU)
Copy of (S2) in file.
Monument Types
- ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: RESTRICTED: TL8496J, K, L, U, V, W. |
| --- | Designation: [unknown]. Ancient Monuments Form. SAM Record. DNF387. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 89 NW 10 [2]. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Monograph: Lawson, A. J., Martin, E., Priddy, D. and Taylor, A. 1981. The Barrows of East Anglia. East Anglian Archaeology. No 12. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Hilboruogh. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Photograph: CXY 5. |
| <S1> | Publication: Clarke, W. G. 1925. In Breckland Wilds. First Edition. p 118. |
| <S2> | Designation: Corbishley, M.. 1982. AM107. |
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