NHER 17656 (Monument record) - Bronze Age barrow

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Summary

1977 aerial photography showed the cropmarks of three ring ditches. When the area was visited, the three ring ditches were visible as low mounds and prehistoric flint tools were found on one of those.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF81NE
Civil Parish MILEHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

5 August 1977. NAU Air Photography.
Cropmarks.
Vestigial cropmarks of three ring ditches.
D. Edwards (NAU), 19 March 1981.

9 January 1989. Visited by J. Wymer and D. Edwards (NAU).
Two found to be visible mounds.
Context 1. 46m diameter, 0.80m height.
At highest point of field, double concentric ring on air photograph.
Context 2.
32m diameter, 0.50m height, also double concentric.
Context 3 has no surface expression.
All on gravelly arable field.
Finds.
Prehistoric flint. One core, eight flakes on Context 2 only.
NCM.
See map and photographs in file.
J. Wymer (NAU), 11 January 1989.

Site of visible barrow under pasture, cut for hay. Area surrounded by low Ikora trees forming a small circular thicket. One small tree on summit.
H. Paterson (A&E), 7 January 1999.

June 2007. Field visit.
Context 2 survives as low mound 40cm to 50cm tall.
Context 3 survives as low mound about 20cm tall.
D. Robertson (NLA), 22 June 2007.

  • --- Aerial Photograph: TF8918 A-C,F-H,J-L,M,N,T,U.
  • --- Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1990. [Articles on the planting of saplings round a barrow]. 27 November.
  • --- Photograph: EQA 2, 5.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • --- Slide: Various. Slide.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)

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Record last edited

Nov 23 2023 12:58PM

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