NHER 5037 (Monument record) - Site of Early Bronze Age barrow

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Summary

A circle of flints around a heap of flints was revealed by ploughing in 1939. Excavation of the site revealed a crouched human burial 1.5m under the centre of the heap of flints. No objects were buried with the body. This was probably an Early Bronze Age barrow. It has now been destroyed by ploughing.

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Map sheet	TL89NW
Civil Parish	ICKBURGH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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April 1939. While ploughing deep for carrots on land that had not been cultivated much before. On former boundary of Ickburgh/Langford, northeast of Young Covert.
Circle of flint stones appeared with heap of flints in centre, under which at 1.5m (5 feet) below present surface was crouched inhumation: no associated objects, bones very sodden, skull fragmentary except jaw. ?Early Bronze Age.
Investigated by H.T. Green.
Barrow ploughed away.
See (S1), (S2) and (S3).
The skull from this burial is held by the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1939.51), where it appears it has been accessioned with Neolithic pottery sherds recorded as being from an adjacent site (NHER 5038).

No sign of barrow.
A.J. Lawson (NAU), 25 November 1975.

Associated Sources (7)

--- SNF6712 Monograph: Lawson, A. J., Martin, E., Priddy, D. and Taylor, A. 1981. The Barrows of East Anglia. East Anglian Archaeology. No 12.
--- SNF87258 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Ickburgh.
--- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 89 NW 4.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF2060 Article in Serial: Wake, T. 1942. Some Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXVIII Pt I pp 23-30. p 25.
<S2> SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S3> SNF62302 Photograph: Green, H.T.. 1939. Ickburgh 1939. Bronze Age barrow..

Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)

Object Types (1)

HUMAN REMAINS (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

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Ickburgh (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Jan 16 2025 4:23PM