NHER 10788 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Bronze Age barrow on Snetterton Heath

24 December 1936. On Snetterton Heath north of railway.
Flattened bowl barrow found by R. R. Clarke (NCM).
No ditch. 32-37 paces diameter, 0.9-1.2m (3-4ft) high. Excavated in centre and to one side. Bracken all over.

1943.
Part removed for material for airfield according to informant [1].

27m diameter, 10cm high. Ploughed. Shows as gravelly patch.
Doubtful as barrow as modern brick found on surface (but see comment above - E. Rose (NAU)).
A. J. Lawson (NAU) 11 February 1976.

No trace of mound anywhere in this area, land under beet.
J. J. Wymer (NAU) 18 August 1983.

2001. Geophysical Survey and Trial Trenching.
No evidence for barrow recovered during evalution of proposed development area. It should however be noted that there appears to be a discrepancy between the site deliberately targeted during this evaluation and the site of the barrow recorded in the NHER.
See NHER 35980 for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 28 April 2015.

July 2012. Norfolk NMP.
Two World War Two defences/spigot mortar emplacements are visible on aerial photographs (S1-S2) as open earthworks and they have been recorded as NHER 53397.
They are centred on TM 0141 8977 and TM 0184 8972. Each defence consists of a pit feature measuring up to 6m by 6m, which presumably would have contained a concrete ‘thimble’ and ammunition lockers to each side. The upcast spoil forms a bank around each of the pits, up to 4m in width in some places.
A third earthwork is visible centred on TM 0137 8971, which may also have formed part of the World War Two defences, although it does appear to be slightly different in nature, and it may be for this reason that it has been previously recorded as a possible Bronze Age barrow (NHER 10788).
However, it is interesting to note that none of these features are visible on an aerial photograph from 1942 (S3), when the airfield was visible under construction, suggesting that the ‘barrow’ NHER 10788 may have been either mis-located or wrongly identified. In fact, it is possible that the barrow identified by Rainbird Clarke is located slightly to the south, where a more degraded mound was visible on the aerial photographs, which has been recorded as NHER 57378.
E. Bales (NMP), 02 July 2012.