NHER 2689 (Monument record) - Site of Bronze Age round barrow

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Summary

This may be the site of a Bronze Age round barrow, marked on an Ordnance Survey map of 1836. The barrow is no longer visible, and the site may have been confused with the Bronze Age bowl barrow nearby, see NHER 2688.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF80NW
Civil Parish COCKLEY CLEY, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

(S1) marks 'barrows' here.
One of these is certainly a mistake, which refers to NHER 2688.
No trace of the other in plantation when visited on 15 March 1976.
In 1969 the OS reviser claimed to see it with a pit in the top, but this again was almost certainly NHER 2688.
A. J. Lawson (NAU) 15 March 1976.

March 2010. Field visit.
Unable to find possible barrow.
D. Robertson (HES), 8 July 2011.

Not shown on (S2).
D. Robertson (HES), 27 June 2014.

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Cockley Cley.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1805-1836. Ordnance Survey Map. One inch to the mile. First Edition.
  • <S2> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1883. Ordnance Survey 6 inch map.

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Record last edited

Jun 27 2014 11:35AM

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