NHER 5617 (Monument record) - Site of possible Bronze Age round barrow

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Summary

This is said to be the site of a possible Bronze Age round barrow, although a site visit in 1979 recorded no evidence of such a feature. Work on the site revealed only post medieval pottery sherds, although excavation on the barrow in 1905 is said to have recovered a Neolithic polished axehead.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TL78NE
Civil Parish	WEETING WITH BROOMHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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1905. Mound near Brandon station west of road to Stoke Ferry 9 ft (2.7m) high, with fir trees on it. Doubtful if barrow owing to natural mounds adjacent, but W. G. Clarke recorded that when excavated it contained some polished flint axes. Noted by H. Dixon Hewitt October 1905 and photographed 16 May 1908.
(S1) (Not checked).
Copy NCM card (S2).
E. Rose (NAU).

5 December 1979. Visited by E.Rose.
The spot indicated is now between the Catholic Church and a factory. No trace of a mound as described, though some irregularities on this waste plot of ground.
The polished flints were supposed to belong to Mr G. Wood of Brandon - A. J. Lawson (NAU).
Copy of photos in file.

27 November 1987. Footings dug on building site. Made ground on west side.
Post medieval sherds - large sherd of late post medieval stoneware, one glazed red earthenware, one clay pipe stem. Not retained.
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU).
J. Wymer (NAU), 4 May 1988.

Associated Sources (5)

--- SNF87258 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Weeting.
--- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 78 NE 16.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF1540 Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1913. Norfolk Barrows. The Antiquary. Vol XLIX pp 416-423.
<S2> SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)

Object Types (2)

POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Weeting with Broomhill (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

May 26 2020 3:36PM