NHER 49491 (Landscape record) - Bronze Age round barrow cemetery
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG30SW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | BERGH APTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
| Civil Parish | THURTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
June 2007. Norfolk NMP
A group number for a Bronze Age barrow cemetery. Cropmarks of six ring ditches (NHER 10308-12, 49490) are visible on aerial photographs (S5-S7). Several of the barrows were excavated in about 1830 (S1-S4). Their survival as earthworks into the 19th century can be attributed to their position on an area of former heath called White Heath. A second group of barrows is also present 500m to the south-west (NHER 49492). Together these two groups form a large dispersed cemetery.
J. Albone (NMP), 7 June 2007
Associated Sources (7)
- <S1> SNW3997 Serial: Page, W.. 1901. Victoria County History: A History of Norfolk Volume 1. Victoria County History. p 275.
- <S2> SNF900 Article in Serial: Manning, C. R.. 1859. The Examination of some British Barrows in the Parish of Bergh Apton. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol V pp 180-184. pp 180-184.
- <S3> SNF1540 Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1913. Norfolk Barrows. The Antiquary. Vol XLIX pp 416-423. p 418.
- <S4> SNF4927 Monograph: Bryant, T. H. 1890-1910. Hundred of Clavering. The Churches of Norfolk.
- <S5> SNF67676 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1429 4205-6 16-APR-1946 (NMR).
- <S6> SNF67677 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1971. OS/71302 15-6 29-JUN-1971.
- <S7> SNF12318 Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1977. NHER TG 3200E (NLA 56/ALC15) 02-AUG-1977.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (0)
Related NHER Records (6)
- Geographical: NHER 10311 - Parent of: Bronze Age round barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 10309 - Parent of: Bronze Age round barrow cropmark (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 10310 - Parent of: Bronze Age round barrow cropmark (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 10308 - Parent of: Bronze Age round barrow earthwork (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 49490 - Parent of: Ring ditch cropmark (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 10312 - Parent of: Site of a Bronze Age round barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
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Jan 17 2025 11:10AM