NHER 5143 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Bronze Age round barrow

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Summary

A Bronze Age round barrow has been identified as an earthwork on the ground, and is visible on aerial photographs and lidar imagery (the latter from a survey flown in 2015). It is one of two barrows located in a plantation, on former heathland; the other, NHER 5143, lies approximately 32m to the southwest. It is thought that this may be one of the barrows investigated in 1871 by Lord Rosehill, who found evidence of cremations in them.

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Map sheet TL89SW
Civil Parish WEETING WITH BROOMHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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Round barrow riddled with rabbits.
R. R. Clarke (NCM), 14 November 1934.

1914.
[1] informed W. G. Clarke that a human skeleton 7 ft (2.1m) long had been found in one of the barrows west of Grimes Graves (S4), Norwich Library.

31m diameter around 1m high covered in pines in plantation. Cut by fence on north.
A. J. Lawson (NAU), 28 November 1975.

Originally recorded by R. R. Clarke (NCM), 14 November 1934 as around 100ft (30m) diameter, 2 ft 6inch - 3 ft (0.76 - 0.91m) high NB (S5) - legend of a man buried upright in barrow at Weeting. Was this one of barrows opened by Lord Rosehill around 1870? See NHER 5144.
E. Rose (NAU).

Copy of schedule in file.

September 1983.
No change. Just inside plantation but mound on east protrudes into ploughed field. Much mutilated by rabbits.
J. Wymer (NAU).

1997.
MPP gives as 1m high, 29m diameter. Fence still crosses it.

Scheduled with NHER 5144.

2002.
Scheduled Ancient Monument Management Plan March 2002-March 2007.
Copy in file.
D. Gurney (NLA), 24 April 2002.

October 2002. In recently disturbed soil on summit of barrow.
Three sherds, two joining, probably all from same pot, profusely grog tempered, with very sparse flint inclusions, reduced with buff surfaces. Damage on exterior is recent, very fresh interior. All fractures are sharp, and some are recent. Thickness 12mm. Weight 26g.
See notes by D. Gurney (NLA) in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 8 October 2002.

October 2002.
Trees felled. Slight damage.
See report in file.
D. Gurney (NLA), 7 October 2002.

November 2016. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The Bronze Age round barrow described above is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs and lidar imagery (S7-S8). As a result of the NMP mapping, the central grid reference of the site has altered from TL 8032 9009 to TL 8037 9009 [2].
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 17 November 2016.

  • --- Designation: [unknown]. Ancient Monuments Form. SAM Record. DNF201.
  • --- Designation: English Heritage. 1990-2013. English Heritage Scheduling Notification. Notification. DNF201.
  • --- Designation: English Heritage. 1994? -2011?. English Heritage Digital Designation Record. Record. DNF201.
  • --- Monograph: Lawson, A. J., Martin, E., Priddy, D. and Taylor, A. 1981. The Barrows of East Anglia. East Anglian Archaeology. No 12.
  • --- Photograph: CXR 31.
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Weeting.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 89 SW 13 [2].
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • --- Unpublished Document: English Heritage. 2002. English Heritage Management Agreement.
  • --- Unpublished Document: Gurney, D.. 2002. Site Visit Report.
  • <S2> Designation: Corbishley, M.. 1983. AM107.
  • <S4> Publication: Clarke, W.G.. MSS 129.
  • <S5> Publication: Fox, C. 1923. The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region: a topographical study of the Bronze, Early Iron, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon Ages, with an introductory note on the Neolithic Age. p 328; Barrow 57.
  • <S6> Publication: Clarke, W. G. 1925. In Breckland Wilds. First Edition. p 164.
  • <S7> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Various. Vertical Aerial Photograph. RAF/3G/TUD/UK/59 V 5112-5113 05-FEB-1946 (HEA Original Print).
  • <S8> LIDAR Airborne Survey: Various. LIDAR Airborne Survey. LIDAR Lynford Forest Research 0.5m DTM 15-JUN-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial).
  • HUMAN REMAINS (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Record last edited

Sep 3 2020 2:34PM

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