NHER 62483 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Possible mound of unknown, possibly modern date

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Summary

A possible mound of unknown but perhaps late post-medieval or modern date is visible as an earthwork on imagery from a lidar survey flown in 2015. The mound is sub-circular and has an internal depression. It could represent the remains of a damaged Bronze Age round barrow. It corresponds, however, with the location of a circular clearing at the crossroads of two forest rides, visible on aerial photographs from 1946. It could somehow relate to this clearing; it perhaps surrounded or underlay a tree ring, for example. Equally, it could relate to Second World War (or earlier) military activity evident in the area; a trench identified immediately to its east (NHER 62484) is likely to have had a military origin. As the lidar survey was flown relatively recently, it is probable that the earthwork still survives.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL88SW
Civil Parish THETFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

January 2019. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
A possible mound of unknown but perhaps late post-medieval or modern date is visible as an earthwork on imagery from a lidar survey flown in 2015 (S1). The mound is sub-circular and has an internal depression. It could represent the remains of a damaged Bronze Age round barrow. It corresponds, however, with the location of a circular clearing at the crossroads of two forest rides, visible on aerial photographs from 1946 (S2, for example). It could somehow relate to this clearing; it perhaps surrounded or underlay a tree ring, for example. Equally, it could relate to Second World War (or earlier) military activity evident in the area; a trench identified immediately to its east (NHER 62484) is likely to have had a military origin. As the lidar survey was flown relatively recently, it is probable that the earthwork still survives.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 4 January 2019.

  • <S1> LIDAR Airborne Survey: Various. LIDAR Airborne Survey. LIDAR Thetford Forest Research 0.5m DTM 17-JUL-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial).
  • <S2> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Various. Vertical Aerial Photograph. RAF/106G/UK/1589 RP 3407-3408 21-JUN-1946 (HEA Original Print).

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Record last edited

Feb 22 2021 9:50AM

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