Record Details
| NHER Number: | 5781 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Two Bronze Age barrows and two linear features |
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Summary
Two ring ditches, the remains of a Bronze Age barrows, and two linear features are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. In 1976 one of the ring ditches had a surviving barrow mound.
, numbered NHER 11292 (now deleted).
E. Rose (NAU).
September 1985.
No mound visible; cereal crop.
J. Wymer (NAU).
7 August 1996. NLA air photography.
Cropmarks of ring ditch and two linears visible.
S. Massey (NLA), 8 November 2001.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 9525 2923 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF92NE |
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| Parish: | KETTLESTONE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1974. Cropmark.
Ring ditch associated with two linear features.
D.A. Edwards (NAU), 1974.
No sign in ploughed field.
A.J. Lawson (NAU), March 1976.
(S1), (S2).
Same as NHER 11292?
A.J. Lawson (NAU).
Yes correction of map after overlay made 1983 shows this is really the same as ploughed out barrow noted by A.J. Lawson (NAU) March 1976 as 20m diameter, 20cm high, numbered NHER 11292 (now deleted).
E. Rose (NAU).
September 1985.
No mound visible; cereal crop.
J. Wymer (NAU).
7 August 1996. NLA air photography.
Cropmarks of ring ditch and two linears visible.
S. Massey (NLA), 8 November 2001.
October 2009.
Possible second ring ditch visible centred approximately on TF 9524 2922, to south of the ring ditch identified as a low mound on the ground in March 1976 (approximately centred on TF 9523 2925).
See (S3).
D. Robertson (NLA), 1 October 2009.
Monument Types
- LINEAR FEATURE (Unknown date)
- RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: TF9529 A-ABF,AFJ-AFL,AFW-AFX,AHK-AHN. |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1996. TF 9529AJK. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 92 NE 13 [2]. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Article in Monograph: Edwards, D. 1976. The Air Photographs Collection of the Norfolk Archaeological Unit.. Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 2 pp 251-269. p 264. |
| <S2> | Monograph: Lawson, A. J., Martin, E., Priddy, D. and Taylor, A. 1981. The Barrows of East Anglia. East Anglian Archaeology. No 12. pp 45, 47. |
Related records
| 44529 | Related to: Pensthorpe Bronze Age barrow group (Landscape) |