NHER 5784 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Three probable Bronze Age round barrows

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Summary

Three ring ditches are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. They are the remains of round barrows and are probably Bronze Age. In 1976 two of the barrows had surviving mounds, but by 1985 these had been ploughed flat.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TF92NE
Civil Parish	KETTLESTONE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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1959. Ring ditch on St Joseph aerial photograph.

September 1961.
Three barrows.
Context 1 at TF 9563 2931. Mound 1 foot 6 inches high, soil darker than surrounding area. (barrow 3 on R.R. Clarke's card).
Context 2 = TF 9570 2931 (R.R. Clarke's barrow 4).
Context 3 at TF 9574 2932 (R.R. Clarke's barrow 5).
Both in line with and to east of barrow three, but not visible on ground.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

30 August 1972. Ordnance Survey air photography.
Positive cropmarks.
Three ring ditches.
D. Voisey (NLA), 26 September 1995.

1976. Field observation.
Context 1 = 32m diameter, 10cm high, ploughed.
Context 2 not visible on ground.
Context 3 = 24m diameter, 20cm high, ploughed.
(S1).
A.J. Lawson (NAU), 1976.

Notes (S2) and copy of photographs in file. Note Cambridge University Committee for Aerial Photography aerial photograph seems to show western ring (context 1) damaged by construction of adjacent Royal Observer Corps station.

September 1985.
None of mounds visible; crop in field.
J. Wymer (NAU).

Associated Sources (12)

--- SNF48030 Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1972. OS 72-390-319.
--- SNF48031 Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1972. OS 72-390-381.
--- SNF10962 Aerial Photograph: St Joseph ZP 67. Unit TF9529 A-ABF,ADD-ADU,ADW-AES,AGE-AGS,AHA-AHC,AHQ-AHT,AJE.
--- SNF2551 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.
--- SNF87258 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Kettlestone.
--- SNF87261 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Early Saxon. Kettlestone.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 92 NE 13 [2].
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
--- SNF87125 Serial: 1960. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1960. No 7. p 4.
<S1> SNF6712 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.
<S2> SNF62868 Unpublished Document: 1961. (Pensthorpe) Kettlestone.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)

Object Types (0)

Related NHER Records (1)

Chronological: NHER 44529 - Related to: Pensthorpe Bronze Age barrow group (Landscape)

Record last edited

Aug 4 2016 2:59PM