NHER 6184 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Bronze Age round barrow in Taylor's Wood

Tumulus marked by Ordance Survey (S1) in Salthouse Heath Plantation (formerly Cley Common).
Difficult to find.
L. Grinsell and R. R. Clarke (NCM).

January 1974. Visit.
About 1m high, 20m diameter, size difficult to assess due to dense cover of rhododendrons in wood.
A. J. Lawson (NAU), 30 January 1974.

Not scheduled despite misleading schedule map. Information from Department of Environment 1984.
E. Rose (NLA), 16 November 1984.

November 1995. Scheduled jointly with NHER 6185.
Schedule Description:
The monument includes two bowl barrows within a dispersed round barrow cemetery extending over an area of c.1.3 sq km on and immediately around Salthouse Heath. The two barrows, which are situated c.140m from the boundary between the parishes of Cley next the Sea and Salthouse, to the north east and east, are visible as earthen mounds c.23m apart on a north east to south west alignment. The larger mound, to the north east, stands to a height of c.1m and covers a circular area with a diameter of c.14m. The second mound measures c.1m in height and c.12m in diameter. It is thought that each of the mounds is encircled by a ditch c.2.5m wide, from which earth was dug and used in the construction of the barrows. These ditches have become infilled and are no longer visible on the ground surface, but will survive as buried features.
The estimated overall diameters of the mounds are therefore 19m and 17m respectively.
Information from (S2) and (S3).

See (S4).

January 1984. Visit.
Thick scrub and rhododendrons. Site not located.
J. J. Wymer (NAU), 31 January 1984.

June 1986. Visit.
Area cleared. A neat, regular bowl barrow. 12m diameter, 1m high. Trace of ditch. Seemingly intact. Tall thin oaks on mound.
J. J. Wymer (NAU), 26 June 1986.

1994.
Situated in Taylor's Wood, at present under cover of bramble, rhododendron, and other scrub. This renders site difficult to recognise. However a grant aided woodland management scheme is currently being undertaken by the owner. This will be beneficial for the well being of the tumulus, with no replanting on the mound itself.
H. Paterson (NLA) 23 May 1994.

October 2002. Norfolk NMP.
Site of Bronze Age barrow within woodland at Taylors Wood. The NMP Project has not mapped the barrow mound as the monument was obscured by tree coverage on all of the available aerial photographs.
S. Massey (NMP), 7 May 2003.

May 2003. Field observations.
Dense brambles, barrow not found.
D. Gurney (NLA), 18 June 2003