NHER 40317 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Probable Bronze Age round barrow

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Summary

A probable Bronze Age barrow, measuring around 20m across and 1m high, was recorded as an earthwork in 2004 during forestry operations. It has subsequently been mapped from a lidar survey flown in 2015. An earthwork bank to the north corresponds with a boundary depicted on 19th and 20th century Ordnance Survey maps.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL88NW
Civil Parish WEETING WITH BROOMHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

March 2004. Noted during forestry operations.
Probable barrow, around 20m across and 1m high. Nearby to the north, an old bank.
D. Gurney (NLA), 31 March 2004.

November 2016. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The probable Bronze Age round barrow described above is visible on lidar imagery (S1) [1]. A circular mound is visible at the location described, albeit not particularly clearly, with an earthwork bank (which corresponds to a boundary on historic Ordnance Survey maps such as (S2)) to the north (the latter has not been mapped). It is one of four probable and possible round barrows recorded in this area, which together perhaps formed a dispersed barrow cemetery (recorded as NHER 61509).
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 28 November 2016.

  • <S1>XY LIDAR Airborne Survey: Various. LIDAR Airborne Survey. LIDAR Santon Forest Research 0.5m DTM 15-JUL-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial). [Mapped feature: #63910 Extent of earthworks based on a LiDAR survey., ENF140914]
  • <S2> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1902-7. Ordnance Survey second edition 25 inch (1902-7) map. 25 inches to 1 mile.

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Record last edited

Sep 11 2020 4:30PM

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