NHER 23953 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Bronze Age round barrow and multi-period pottery

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Summary

This is the site of a possible Bronze Age round barrow, visible as a low mound. Prehistoric flints and fragments of pottery dating from the Roman to the medieval periods have been found by fieldwalking.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF70NW
Civil Parish BARTON BENDISH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

May 1987.
Possbile barrow discovered on junction of sites BB 729 and BB 734, between airfield fence and present road, southeast of old road line.
Mound 0.3m high and 37m diameter approximately, circular.
Composed of soil darker, more gravelly and less chalky than surrounding.
Not apparently one of the natural swellings common in area.
A. Rogerson (NAU) and E. Rose (NAU) 21 August 1987.

2 January 1988. Fieldwalking in Barton Bendish survey
BB 929 finds from surface of mound.
List in file.
A. Rogerson (NAU) January 1989.

  • --- *Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 729. BB.
  • --- *Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 734. BB.
  • --- *Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 929. BB.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

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Record last edited

Oct 18 2011 11:08AM

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