Record Details
| NHER Number: | 52449 |
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| Type of record: | Landscape |
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| Name: | Horsford Barrow cemetery |
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Summary
The barrow cemetery at Horsford Woods, centred on TG 1923 1832, represents a group of ten or more possible Bronze Age barrows, some of which are unconfirmed despite systematic study of the available aerial photographs. The dispersed cemetery covers approximately 2.2km by 0.5km of heathland and plantation.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1917 1858 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG11NE |
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| Parish: | HORSFORD, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
November 2009. Norfolk NMP.
The barrow cemetery at Horsford Woods, centred on TG 1923 1832, represents a group of ten or more possible Bronze Age barrows, some of which are unconfirmed despite systematic study of the available aerial photographs. The dispersed cemetery covers approximately 2.2km by 0.5km of heathland and plantation.
The cemetery includes two large embanked barrows with double concentric ring ditches (NHER 7779 and 18491), although the latter is no longer visible as an earthwork. Two oval barrows (NHER 7772 and 7773) and three round barrows (NHER 7774, 7777 and 52450) are also visible as earthworks. Two possible ring ditches are visible as vegetation marks (NHER 52450 and 52426).
Also, two previously reported round barrows (NHER 7775 and 52451) and two ring ditches (NHER 7776 and 7778) could not be confirmed from the study of the aerial photographs.
E. Bales (NMP), November 2009.
Monument Types
- BARROW CEMETERY (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC? to 701 BC?)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/LA/191 7092 22-MAR-1945 (NMR). |
| <S2> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1636 4224-7 09-JUL-1946 (NMR). |
| <S3> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF CPE/UK/1801 4044 25-OCT-1946 (NMR). |
| <S4> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1955. RAF 540/1723 (F21) 0121-3 04-OCT-1955 (NMR). |
| <S5> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1963. RAF 58/5762 (F21) 042-3 06-JUN-1963 (NMR). |
| <S6> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1964. NHER TG 1918V (RAF) XX XXXX 1964 (NLA). |
| <S7> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1964. NHER TG 1918U (RAF) XX XXXX 1964 (NLA). |
| <S8> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1969. OS 69251 118-20 13-JUN-1969 (NMR). |
| <S9> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Meridian Airmaps Limited. 1971. MAL 71020 061-2 11-APR-1971 (NMR). |
| <S10> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Meridian Airmaps Limited. 1971. MAL 71020 080-81 11-APR-1971 (NMR). |
| <S11> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.. 1973. NHER TG 1918A & F-N (NLA AAH11) 18-JUL-1973 (NLA). |
| <S12> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.. 1973. NHER TG 1918P-S 01-AUG-1973 (NLA). |
| <S13> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1990. OS/90224 203-5 31-JUL-1990 (NMR). |
| <S14> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1992. OS/92337 234-5 11-JUN-1992 (NLA). |
| <S15> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1992. OS/92337 248-9 11-JUN-1992 (NLA). |
| <S16> | Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. 1997. CUCAP ZNA 076-7 15-May-1997 (CUCAP). |
| <S17> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Google Earth. ? - present. Google Earth Orthophotographs. https://earth.google.com/web. 02-JUL-2006 Accessed 18-NOV-2009. |
Related records
| 7772 | Parent of: Bronze Age round barrow on Horsford Heath (Monument) |
| 7776 | Parent of: Possible Bronze Age ring ditch (Monument) |
| 7778 | Parent of: Possible Bronze Age ring ditch (Monument) |
| 7775 | Parent of: Possible Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 7779 | Parent of: Site of Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 18491 | Parent of: Site of embanked Bronze Age barrow with double concentric ring ditches (Monument) |
| 52426 | Parent of: Site of possible Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 7774 | Parent of: Site of possible Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 7777 | Parent of: Site of possible Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 7773 | Parent of: Site of possible Neolithic or Bronze Age oval barrow on Horsford Heath (Monument) |