NHER 5144 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Bronze Age round barrow

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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 northeast. It is thought that this may be one of the barrows investigated in 1871 by Lord Rosehill, who found evidence of cremations in them. In 1853 an Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead was found on the barrow.

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

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Bowl barrow around 100 ft (30m) diameter, 2 1/2 - 3 ft (0.76m to 0.9m) high riddled by rabbits.
R. R. Clarke (NCM), 14 December 1934.

Probably dug by Lord Rosehill around 1870.

1853.
Early Bronze Age Beaker period barbed and tanged arrowhead found on barrow.
In NCM.
32m diameter, 32m diameter 1m high covered in pines in plantation.
A. J. Lawson (NAU), 28 November 1975.

(S1), (S2), (S3), (S4), (S5), (S6).

(S3) - 'Lord Rosehill opened seven barrows near Grimes Graves, finding in them deposits of burnt bones and those only in one case placed in a cinerary urn but in none of them did he discover anything associated with the interment'.
E. Rose (NAU).

Copy of schedule in file.

September 1983.
No change. In plantation, much mutilated by rabbits.
J. Wymer (NAU).

MPP 1997 gives as 1m high, 28m diameter.

Scheduled with NHER 5143.

2002.
Scheduled Ancient Monument Management Plan March 2002-March 2007.
Copy in file.
D. Gurney (NLA), 24 April 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 (S9-S10). As a result of the NMP mapping, the central grid reference of the site has altered from TL 8023 9002 to TL 8033 9005 [1].
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 33.
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Weeting [2].
  • --- 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.
  • <S1> Article in Serial: 1855. Appendix. Extracts from the Proceedings of the Committee. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol VI pp 341-366. p 351.
  • <S10> LIDAR Airborne Survey: Various. LIDAR Airborne Survey. LIDAR Lynford Forest Research 0.5m DTM 15-JUN-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial).
  • <S2> Article in Serial: Greenwell, W. 1870. On the Opening of Grime's Graves in Norfolk. Journal of the Ethnological Society of London. Vol II No 4 pp 419-439. p 436.
  • <S3> Article in Serial: 1872. Appendix. Extracts from the Proceedings of the Committee. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol VII pp 349-374. p 372.
  • <S4> 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 58.
  • <S5> Publication: Clarke, W. G. 1925. In Breckland Wilds. First Edition. p 164.
  • <S6> Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1913. Norfolk Barrows. The Antiquary. Vol XLIX pp 416-423. p 423.
  • <S8> Designation: Corbishley, M.. 1983. AM107.
  • <S9> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Various. Vertical Aerial Photograph. RAF/3G/TUD/UK/59 V 5112-5113 05-FEB-1946 (HEA Original Print).
  • HUMAN REMAINS (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)

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Sep 3 2020 2:27PM

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