Record Details
| NHER Number: | 5784 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Three probable Bronze Age round barrows |
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Summary
Three ring ditches are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. They are the remains of round barrows and are probably Bronze Age. In 1976 two of the barrows had surviving mounds, but by 1985 these had been ploughed flat.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 957 292 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF92NE |
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| Parish: | KETTLESTONE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1959. Ring ditch on St Joseph aerial photograph.
September 1961.
Three barrows.
Context 1 at TF 9563 2931. Mound 1 foot 6 inches high, soil darker than surrounding area. (barrow 3 on R.R. Clarke's card).
Context 2 = TF 9570 2931 (R.R. Clarke's barrow 4).
Context 3 at TF 9574 2932 (R.R. Clarke's barrow 5).
Both in line with and to east of barrow three, but not visible on ground.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).
30 August 1972. Ordnance Survey air photography.
Positive cropmarks.
Three ring ditches.
D. Voisey (NLA), 26 September 1995.
1976. Field observation.
Context 1 = 32m diameter, 10cm high, ploughed.
Context 2 not visible on ground.
Context 3 = 24m diameter, 20cm high, ploughed.
(S1).
A.J. Lawson (NAU), 1976.
Notes (S2) and copy of photographs in file. Note Cambridge University Committee for Aerial Photography aerial photograph seems to show western ring (context 1) damaged by construction of adjacent Royal Observer Corps station.
September 1985.
None of mounds visible; crop in field.
J. Wymer (NAU).
Monument Types
- 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: St Joseph ZP 67. Unit TF9529 A-ABF,ADD-ADU,ADW-AES,AGE-AGS,AHA-AHC,AHQ-AHT,AJE. |
| --- | 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. |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1972. OS 72-390-319. |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1972. OS 72-390-381. |
| --- | 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. |
| --- | Serial: 1960. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1960. No 7. p 4. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Kettlestone. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Early Saxon. Kettlestone. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | 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. |
| <S2> | Unpublished Document: 1961. (Pensthorpe) Kettlestone. |
Related records
| 44529 | Related to: Pensthorpe Bronze Age barrow group (Landscape) |