NHER 2172 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Bronze Age round barrow

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Summary

A ring ditch with a central pit, the remains of a Bronze Age round barrow, are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. Records suggest that the barrow mound may have survived into the second half of the 20th century, but by 1976 all trace of it as an earthwork had been lost through ploughing. A spread of large flints around the site could be the remains of a cairn, although it is more likely that these are just flints unearthed from the underlying chalk by ploughing.

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Map sheet TF93SE
Civil Parish KETTLESTONE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Pre 1963. Cropmark on St Joseph aerial photograph.
Barrow. 36m (120 feet) from north edge field, 30m (100 feet) from west, mound 2.1m (7 feet) high, small depression in centre. Cropmark coincides with ditch about 1.8 to 2.4m (6 to 8 feet) wide. Internal diameter 21.6m (72 feet).
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

Norfolk Research Committee. September 1961.
Cropmark visible on ground when viewed from south by late morning sunlight. White area on aerial photograph around mound and ditch proved to be large flints apparently derived from chalk extending into field to north.
Norfolk Research Committee Barrows, 10 September 1961.

Situated on natural flinty gravel knoll as described, but about 20cm high. Suggest R.R.Clarke (NCM) meant to say 7 inches not 7 feet. No sign of barrow mound. Ploughed.
A.J. Lawson (NAU), February 1976.

29 June 1993. NLA air photography (S1).
Ditch of round barrow still visible, central feature suggested, circular in shape. Either remains of mound previously described or central pit/cut.
S. Massey (NLA).

5 July 1994. NLA air photography (S2).
Ring ditch, within lighter 'flint rich' area, as noted. Is this a cultural phenomenon? Destroyed flint cairn perhaps.
M. Brennand (NLA), 12 February 2001.

  • --- Aerial Photograph: St. Joseph AP ZP 66. Unit AP TF9530 E,J-K.
  • --- Article in Monograph: Edwards, D. 1976. The Air Photographs Collection of the Norfolk Archaeological Unit.. Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 2 pp 251-269.
  • --- Monograph: Lawson, A. J., Martin, E., Priddy, D. and Taylor, A. 1981. The Barrows of East Anglia. East Anglian Archaeology. No 12. pp 45, 47.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Serial: 1960. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1960. No 7. p 4.
  • <S1> Aerial Photograph: TF 9530 L-M.
  • <S2> Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1994. TF 9530N, P.

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Jul 2 2020 10:01AM

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