NHER 2688 (Monument record) - Bronze Age bowl barrow and medieval moot

Tumulus.
Site of a barrow near Red Lodge Farm, 594m to the east, although (S1) in fact marks it further west.

(S2) states that Greenhoe Hundred takes its name from tumuli lying by London Road to Swaffham.
(S3) marks barrow at above site and these may be those referred to. Bryant definitely ascribes this site as South Greenhoe Hundred court.

Medieval cross base mentioned here in (S4), (S5), (S6) and (S7).

1963. Excavation.
Hole dug into centre by [1]:
Flexed inhumation burial found.
Report by C. P. B. Wells.
Male, 45 to 50 years old, 5'6" tall, powerfully built with osteo-arthritis in knee, feet and elbow joints.
Traces of bronze on bones.
At first stated no associations, but later a 'Bush Barrow' type copper alloy dagger was produced as found with skeleton, and two spare rivets from this dagger or another. See drawings (S9) and (S10).

Publication in (S8).
Notes evidence of other bronzes as well as dagger and also ?leather.
E. Rose (NAU) 7 July 1986.

April 2004. Scheduled.
Scheduling description:
The monument includes a bowl barrow located on a north west facing slope, 840m south east of Forestry Lodge. The barrow, one of a group recorded in the area in the mid-18th century, is situated in the northern part of the Breckland region of south west Norfolk. Another round barrow lies approximately 350m to the sotuh west and is the subject of a separate scheduling.
The barrow is visible as an earthen mound measuring approximately 30m in diameter and standing 1.2m high. Limited excavations, undertaken in 1963, revealed a flexed inhumation of a male, aged about 45 years. A copper alloy dagger was found with the burial and is thought to date to about 1500 BC.
The barrows have been identified as the meeting place, or moot, of the South Greenhoe Hundred.
Information from (S11) and (S12).
H. Mellor (HES), 22 June 2018.