Record Details
| NHER Number: | 61496 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | The site of a possible Bronze Age round barrow |
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Summary
The earthworks of a low circular mound, thought to be the remains of a Bronze Age round barrow, are visible on the 0.5m resolution Lidar data and to a lesser extent on the aerial photographs from 1946. This possible barrow, along with NHER 4992, 33455-7, plus another newly identified possible mound (NHER 61497), form a small barrow cemetery (NHER 61495), which is itself located in close proximity to numerous other barrows, forming a dispersed cemetery landscape group (NHER 61484) in this area.
Images - none
Location
Full description
September 2016. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The earthworks of a low circular mound, thought to be the remains of a Bronze Age round barrow, are visible on the 0.5m resolution Lidar data (S1) and to a lesser extent on the aerial photographs from 1946 (S2). The mound is approximately 22.5m in diameter and the traces of a broad and irregular outer ditch survives it to the west.
This possible barrow, along with NHER 4992, 33455-7, plus another newly identified possible mound (NHER 61497), form a small barrow cemetery (NHER 61495), which is itself located in close proximity to numerous other barrows, forming a dispersed cemetery landscape group (NHER 61484) in this area.
S. Horlock (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 29 September 2016.
Monument Types
- MOUND (Unknown date)
- MOUND (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC?)
- ROUND BARROW? (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | LIDAR Airborne Survey: Various. LIDAR Airborne Survey. LIDAR Weeting Forest Research 0.5m DTM 17-JUL-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial). |
| <S2> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Various. Vertical Aerial Photograph. RAF/3G/TUD/UK/59 V 5119-5120 05-FEB-1946 (HEA Original Print). |
Related records
| 61495 | Part of: The site of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery (Monument) |
| 33455 | Related to: Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 33456 | Related to: Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |
| 33457 | Related to: Bronze Age round barrow (Monument) |