NHER 5142 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Probable Bronze Age round barrow, south of Snake Wood

Round barrow south of Snake Wood cut by road and partly destroyed, around 4 ft (1.2m) high.
R. R. Clarke (NCM), 14 December 1934.

Mound irregular, but around 20m diameter, 1 1/4m high, covered in bracken on edge of heath.
A. J. Lawson (NAU), 28 November 1975.

(NB Ordnance Survey mark pit on opposite side of road.) One of those dug by Lord Rosehill in 1870? See NHER 5144.
E. Rose (NAU).

September 1983. No change. Bracken and bushes on mound. Ministry of Defence notice inset into lower northeast side of mound.
J. Wymer (NAU).

December 1987. No change.
J. Wymer (NAU).

November 2016. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The probable Bronze Age round barrow described above is visible as a partial earthwork on aerial photographs (S2) and imagery from a recent lidar survey (S3). Traces of part of an external ditch may be visible on the 1946 aerial photographs, but this element is not particularly clear and its archaeological significance is uncertain. The Monument Polygon defining the site has been amended to more accurately reflect the location of the mound as visible on the aerial photographs and lidar imagery, and to exclude the post-medieval pit to the northwest (described above), which is of no obvious archaeological significance [1]. The mound may be that mentioned in NHER 5141 in relation to the recovery of Bronze Age pottery, and in Historic England Monument record TL 89 SW 15 (S4).
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 10 November 2016.