Record Details

NHER Number:6186
Type of record:Monument
Name:Bronze Age round barrow

Summary

A Bronze Age round barrow survives at Salthouse Heath Plantation covered in dense vegetation. It is thought that it was partially excavated in 1913/1914 when Bronze Age pottery was found within the mound.

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Location

Grid Reference:TG 0698 4207
Map Sheet:TG04SE
Parish:CLEY NEXT THE SEA, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Tumulus marked by Ordnance Survey (S1) in Salthouse Heath Plantation (formerly Cley Common).
Difficult to find.
L. V. Grinsell and R. R. Clarke (NCM).

January 1974. Visit.
Unlocated in dense rhododendron undergrowth in wood.
This barrow is likely to be the site of the excavation carried out in October 1913 by [1], which R.R. Clarke (NCM) places at site NHER 6204. Described as 9m (30 feet) diameter, 1.8m (6 feet) high. At about 1.5m (5 feet) deep some small pieces of pottery, on one of which was the mark of a rounded band. Dated as Bronze Age at Colchester Museum, apparently now lost. See (S2).
A. J. Lawson (NAU), 30 January 1974.

Material from excavation now in NCM, box is dated 1914 not 1913.
E. Rose (NAU).

Shown on (S3) - in about 1850 was 14.6m diameter and 1.1m high, and ploughed.
Information from (S4).
R. J. Rickett (NAU), 31 May 1990.

May 1994. Visit.
Situated in Taylor's Wood, at present under cover of scrub. This renders site difficult to recognise. However a grant aided woodland management scheme is currently being undertaken with no replanting on the mound itself.
H. Paterson (NLA), 23 May 1994.

1995. Schedule amended.
Scheduling description says 0.6m high, 17m wide.
Information from (S5) and (S6).
E. Rose (NAU), 17 November 1995.

Note (S7) in file.

October 2002. Norfolk NMP.
Site of Bronze Age barrow within woodland at Cley Common. The NMP Project has not mapped the barrow mound as the monument was obscured by tree coverage on all of the available aerial photographs.
S. Massey (NMP), 7 May 2003.

Monument Types

  • ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

  • POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Protected Status

  • Scheduled Monument
  • SHINE

Sources and further reading

---Designation: [unknown]. Ancient Monuments Form. SAM Record. DNF141.
---Designation: Corbishley, M.. 1983. AM107.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Cley-next-the-sea.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Map: Ordnance Survey, First Edition, 6 Inch. 1879-1886. Ordnance Survey 1st Edition 6 inch map..
<S2>Article in Serial: 1915. Summary of Proceedings. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol II Pt I (for 1914-15) pp 154-157. p 155.
<S3>Map: Bolding, W.J.J.. c.1850. Map of Barrows on Salthouse Heath.. East Anglian Archaeology. Vol 12, plate XI.
<S4>Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 04 SE 10; TG 04 SE 35.
<S5>Designation: English Heritage. 1990-2013. English Heritage Scheduling Notification. Notification. DNF143.
<S6>Designation: English Heritage. 1994? -2011?. English Heritage Digital Designation Record. Record. DNF143.
<S7>Unpublished Document: Unknown. Site notes.

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