NHER 15523 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Possible site of round barrows or pillow mounds on Cranwich Heath
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL79SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | CRANWICH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
Mounds, three in a row, marked as Robyn Hoodes Buttes (common barrow name elsewhere in Britain, but not known in Norfolk other than here, HER 15522 nearby, and Robin Hoods Garden (Roman site) at Ashill).
17th century map in NRO T/C1/10(a).
A. Lawson (NAU) 11 December 1979.
However these may be clappers (breeding mounds for female rabbits).
A. Lawson (NAU).
February 2020. Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The mounds described above may relate to the three possible low mounds recorded nearby (NHER 63628), which are visible on visualised lidar data from a survey flown in 2015 (S1). They have been interpreted as a possible Bronze Age round barrow cemetery, but they might instead – or also – have functioned as pillow or clapper mounds associated with Methwold Warren (NHER 55577).
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 3 February 2020.
Associated Sources (3)
- --- SNF57643 Map: 1600s. NRO map T/C1/10 (a).
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S1> SNF94129 LIDAR Airborne Survey: Various. LIDAR Airborne Survey. LIDAR Weeting Forest Research 0.5m DTM 17-JUL-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial).
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Record last edited
Jan 31 2021 2:12PM