NHER 11522 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Probable Bronze Age pond barrow

March 1976. Field Observation.
Circular earthwork west of barrow (NHER 63631 [1]) on Mt Ephraim, in wood.
Low circular bank, internal diameter 12m, 10m wide. Interior sunken, 50cm, with slight rise in centre. Pond barrow?
Information recorded on record card (S1).
A. J. Lawson (NAU), March 1976. Amended H. Hamilton (HES), 30 January 2021.

September 1983. Field Observation.
Could not locate, though bracken not very dense.
Information recorded on record card (S1).
J. Wymer (NAU), 1989.

January 1984. Field Observation.
Could not locate, though bracken not very dense.
Information recorded on record card (S1).
J. Wymer (NAU), 1989.

February 1989. Field Observation.
Could not locate, though bracken not very dense.
Information recorded on record card (S1).
J. Wymer (NAU), 1989.

March 1997. Scheduled.
This pond barrow was added to the scheduled area of the adjacent bown barrow (NHER 63631 [1]).
Given as pond barrow 0.5m deep and 17m diameter with bank around, 4m wide and 0.4m high. Slight mound in centre 0.2m high and 5m diameter. The location is given as slightly further north than previously located (grid reference corrected).
It is described as a ponsd barrow, but if there is indeed a slight mound in the centre rather than a depression it may actually be a disc barrow.
Information from scheduling notification (S2) and digital record (S3).
See the National Heritage List for England (S4) for the full, up to date schedulung description.
E. Rose (NAU), 6 June 1997. Amended H. Hamilton (HES), 30 January 2021.

February 2020. Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The Bronze Age pond barrow described above is visible as an earthwork on visualised lidar data (S5). Together with the two bowl barrows to its northeast (NHER 63630 and 63631 [1]), it probably formed part of a linear barrow cemetery (NHER 63629). Numerous other barrows and possible cemeteries have been recorded in the surrounding area (see NHER 61484, or NHER 63617 and 63618 1.25km to the northwest). As the lidar survey was flown relatively recently, it is probable that the earthwork still survives.
The mapped extent of this barrow has been expanded from a point to a polygon [2].
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 10 February 2020.