Record Details
| NHER Number: | 7779 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Bronze Age round barrow |
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Summary
A Bronze Age round barrow with double concentric ring ditches is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs, on land within Horsford Woods plantation, within a dispersed barrow cemetery (NHER 52449).
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1933 1825 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG11NE |
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| Parish: | HORSFORD, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1970.
Double rings on aerial photograph. Evidence on ground seen by Mr. Edwards (Amenity Section, County Hall). Rings not yet seen by NCM staff.
See (S1).
1973. Topographic Survey.
Surveyed by A.J. Lawson (NAU).
Circular double bank and ditch. Doubtfully destroyed barrow. Inner bank 3m wide. 0.3m deep, berm 6m wide, ditch round central earthwork.
See (S2) for further details.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2018.302).
E. Rose (NLA). Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 26 April 2019.
November 2009. Norfolk NMP.
A Bronze Age round barrow with double concentric ring ditches is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs (S3-S8), on land within Horsford Woods plantation, within a dispersed barrow cemetery (NHER 52449).
The round barrow has a central mound, measuring approximately 15m in diameter, surrounded by a 1.8m wide inner ditch. This is surrounded by a bank which measures between 2m and 7.4m, but is not evident for the entire width between the two ditches, perhaps due to degradation. The outer ditch is up to 2.7m in width, and the overall external diameter measures 43m. Outside the outer ditch a fragmentary bank is evident to the south east measuring up to 5.2m in width.
The site of this barrow has been moved approximately 80m to the northwest of the original site, from TG 1936 1818 to TG 1933 1825.
E. Bales (NMP), November 2009.
Monument Types
- BANK (EARTHWORK) (Unknown date)
- DITCH (Unknown date)
- BANK (EARTHWORK) (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- 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: TG1918A-T, Q. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Horsford. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Miscellaneous. Horsford. |
| <S1> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S2> | Monograph: Lawson, A. J., Martin, E., Priddy, D. and Taylor, A. 1981. The Barrows of East Anglia. East Anglian Archaeology. No 12. |
| <S3> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/LA/191 7092 22-MAR-1945 (NMR). |
| <S4> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1636 4225-6 09-JUL-1946 (NMR). |
| <S5> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF CPE/UK/1801 4044 25-OCT-1946 (NMR). |
| <S6> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1955. RAF 540/1723 (F21) 0121-2 04-OCT-1955 (NMR). |
| <S7> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1964. NHER TG 1918V (RAF) XX XXXX 1964 (NLA). |
| <S8> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Meridian Airmaps Limited. 1971. MAL 71020 080-81 11-APR-1971 (NMR). |
Related records
| 52449 | Part of: Horsford Barrow cemetery (Landscape) |