NHER 5781 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Two Bronze Age barrows and two linear features

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Summary

Two ring ditches, the remains of a Bronze Age barrows, and two linear features are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. In 1976 one of the ring ditches had a surviving barrow mound.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF92NE
Civil Parish KETTLESTONE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

1974. Cropmark.
Ring ditch associated with two linear features.
D.A. Edwards (NAU), 1974.

No sign in ploughed field.
A.J. Lawson (NAU), March 1976.

(S1), (S2).

Same as NHER 11292?
A.J. Lawson (NAU).

Yes correction of map after overlay made 1983 shows this is really the same as ploughed out barrow noted by A.J. Lawson (NAU) March 1976 as 20m diameter, 20cm high, numbered NHER 11292 (now deleted).
E. Rose (NAU).

September 1985.
No mound visible; cereal crop.
J. Wymer (NAU).

7 August 1996. NLA air photography.
Cropmarks of ring ditch and two linears visible.
S. Massey (NLA), 8 November 2001.

October 2009.
Possible second ring ditch visible centred approximately on TF 9524 2922, to south of the ring ditch identified as a low mound on the ground in March 1976 (approximately centred on TF 9523 2925).
See (S3).
D. Robertson (NLA), 1 October 2009.

  • --- Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1996. TF 9529AJK.
  • --- Aerial Photograph: TF9529 A-ABF,AFJ-AFL,AFW-AFX,AHK-AHN.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 92 NE 13 [2].
  • <S1> Article in Monograph: Edwards, D. 1976. The Air Photographs Collection of the Norfolk Archaeological Unit.. Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 2 pp 251-269. p 264.
  • <S2> Monograph: Lawson, A. J., Martin, E., Priddy, D. and Taylor, A. 1981. The Barrows of East Anglia. East Anglian Archaeology. No 12. pp 45, 47.

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Record last edited

Feb 25 2024 11:30PM

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