NHER 3667 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Bronze Age bowl barrow on Massingham Common
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
Location
| Map sheet | TF82SW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | GREAT MASSINGHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
Bowl barrow 152m (500ft) southeast of NHER 3666.
Ditch and external bank 28m (92ft) diameter overall. Height of mound 1.5m (5ft). Ditch 3m (10ft) wide; slightly oval plan, long axis north to south. Bank 1.5m (5ft) wide.
Overgrown with bushes. Gravel pit to south has cut into ditch in 1936. Many rabbit burrows.
R. R. Clarke (NCM)
Barrow about 27m (90ft) diameter and 1.2m (4ft) high.
Very overgrown with bushes. Stands on north edge of deep gravel pit.
Rest of common now cultivated and ditch which surrounds barrow has been partly ploughed away on north.
M. W. Thompson from (S1), November 1959.
Could not be found; either quarried away, ploughed flat or in dense plantation to north.
A. J. Lawson (NAU) 16 March 1976.
(S2) makes it clear this is the scheduled barrow, not NHER 3668 as formerly entered.
E. B. Green (NCM), April 1984.
(S2) in file, scheduled with NHER 3666.
Slight rise in ground of old heathland, between 2 sections of plantation. Information from gamekeeper [1] with 40 years employment on estate that barrow had been flattened 15 years ago, as it was being 'quarried' by villagers, and decimated by rabbits.
H. Paterson (A&E) March 1991.
Associated Sources (8)
- --- SNF5405 Designation: Corbishley, M.. 1983. AM107.
- --- SNF99123 Designation: English Heritage. 1994? -2011?. English Heritage Digital Designation Record. Record. DNF427.
- --- SNF5874 Monograph: East Anglian Archaeology. East Anglian Archaeology. No XII.
- --- SNF87258 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Massingham.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF43 Designation: [unknown]. Ancient Monuments Form. SAM Record. DNF427.
- <S2> SNF99120 Designation: English Heritage. 1990-2013. English Heritage Scheduling Notification. Notification. DNF427.
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Record last edited
Mar 8 2019 1:56PM