NHER 33454 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Neolithic or Bronze Age round barrow
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL78NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
February 1998. Walkover Survey.
Rapid Earthwork Identification Survey in advance of destumping (Compartment 6085).
Mound III:
Mound, probable barrow. 30m in diameter, 1m high, partially obscured by a pile of stumps.
One of a group of three, see NHER 32594 and 33453.
See report (S1) for further details.
D. Gurney (NLA), 18 February 1998. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 19 August 2015.
January 2017. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The earthworks of this barrow are visible on the 0.5m resolution Lidar data (S2) [1]. The mound appears to be oval and approximately 37m by 29m, although the lidar data is slightly hard to decipher confidently. The oval mound could suggest a Neolithic date.
This barrow, along with NHER 32594, NHER 33453 and NHER 61532 form a small barrow cemetery (NHER 61535), which is itself located in close proximity to numerous other barrows, forming a dispersed cemetery landscape group (NHER 61484) in this area.
S. Horlock (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 30 January 2017.
Associated Sources (2)
- <S1> SNF81447 Unpublished Contractor Report: Pendleton, C. and Sommers, M. 1998. Rapid Earthwork Identification Survey. Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service. 98/25.
- <S2>XY SNF94129 LIDAR Airborne Survey: Various. LIDAR Airborne Survey. LIDAR Weeting Forest Research 0.5m DTM 17-JUL-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial). [Mapped feature: #63867 Extent of earthworks based on a LiDAR survey., ENF141031]
Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)
Object Types (0)
Related NHER Records (4)
- Geographical: NHER 61535 - Part of: The site of a Neolithic and/or Bronze Age barrow cemetery (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- All Groups: NHER 32594 - Related to: Neolithic or Bronze Age round barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- All Groups: NHER 33453 - Related to: Neolithic or Bronze Age round barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- All Groups: NHER 61532 - Related to: Soilmarks of a ring ditch, probably a former Bronze Age round barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
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