NHER 3638 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Bronze Age round barrow

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Summary

This Bronze Age round barrow is recorded as being dug. The barrow has been ploughed. The mound now stands only 0.3m high. A concentration of prehistoric burnt flints has been recorded next to the barrow.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF82NW
Civil Parish HARPLEY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Barrow?

A few yards to south of NHER 3637. Ringed earthwork. Dug out barrow adjoining which is a considerable spread of pot boilers indicating an occupation site.
A.Q. Watson.

No sign of earthwork under young crop.
A.J. Lawson (NAU).

Southwest bank of earthwork possibly seems as low bank around 0.30m much spread.
See (S1).
H. Paterson (NAU), March 1991.

Though included in scheduled site 269, the revised schedule 1995 (now number 21343) includes only NHER 3637, no mention of 3638.
Information from (S2) and (S3).

1995.
Descheduled, though no official notice issued. Simply no longer included in schedule description of long barrow.
E. Rose (NLA), 6 March 1995.

  • --- Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1913. Norfolk Barrows. The Antiquary. Vol XLIX pp 416-423. pp 419-420.
  • --- Designation: [unknown]. Ancient Monuments Form. SAM Record. DNF127.
  • --- Designation: [Various]. Scheduling and/or Listing Correspondence. Correspondence. DNF127.
  • --- Monograph: Ashbee, P.. 1970. The earthen long barrow in Britain: an introduction to the study of the funerary practice and culture of the Neolithic people of the third millennium B.C. p 170.
  • --- Monograph: Lawson, A. J., Martin, E., Priddy, D. and Taylor, A. 1981. The Barrows of East Anglia. East Anglian Archaeology. No 12. pp 21-22.
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Harpley.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Unpublished Document: Paterson, H. (A&E). Norfolk Ancient Monuments Management Project Site Form.
  • <S2> Designation: English Heritage. 1990-2013. English Heritage Scheduling Notification. Notification. DNF127.
  • <S3> Designation: English Heritage. 1994? -2011?. English Heritage Digital Designation Record. Record. DNF127.
  • POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)

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Record last edited

Jun 28 2018 11:41AM

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