NHER 49735 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Probable Bronze Age barrow

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Summary

The earthworks of probable Bronze Age round barrow are visible on the 0.5m resolution Lidar data and have been identified on the ground. This barrow is located in close proximity to numerous other barrows, forming a dispersed cemetery landscape group (NHER 61484) in this area.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL79SE
Civil Parish WEETING WITH BROOMHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

December 2006. Field visit, after the site was identified by Forestry Commission staff.
Located in Crescent Wood, just to the east of a forestry track. The mapped location is approximate as the handheld GPS unit used did not work under the forest canopy.
A circular mound survives as an earthwork. It is about 20m in diameter and is up to 1m high.
It is probably a Bronze Age round barrow.
D. Robertson (NLA), 11 April 2007.

February 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 up to 27m across, although a break in the profile can been at 20m which is the previously recorded dimension. A wide outer ditch and traces of an outer bank are visible. This barrow is 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), 24 February 2017.

  • --- Article in Serial: Robertson, D. & Paterson, H.. 2010. The Norfolk Monuments Management Project 1990-2010. Twenty Years Conserving the County's Rural Historic Environment.. Norfolk Archaeology. XLVI, pp 15-28.
  • <S2>XY 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: #63940 Extent of earthworks based on a LiDAR survey., ENF141031]

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Record last edited

Sep 18 2020 3:44PM

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