NHER 5649 (Monument record) - Bronze Age or Iron Age round barrow and pottery sherds

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Summary

This is the site of a possible Bronze or Iron Age round barrow, situated near Botany Bay in the parish of Weeting with Broomhill. It was excavated before 1934, and a number of Late Bronze Age or Iron Age cremation and pottery sherds were found. Four barrows noted here by the Ordnance Survey are now recorded individually as NHER 61503-6, and collectively as barrow cemetery NHER 61502. Whether any of these equate to the excavated barrow is not known.

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  • None recorded

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Map sheet TL88NW
Civil Parish WEETING WITH BROOMHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE ROUND BARROW EXCAVATED BEFORE 1934 AND ASSOCIATED MATERIAL, THE BARROWS DESCRIBED BELOW ARE NOW RECORDED INDIVIDUALLY AS NHER 61503-6, AND COLLECTIVELY AS BARROW CEMETERY NHER 61502.


Before 1934. Excavation.
Round barrow near Botany Bay.Late Bronze Age or Iron Age cremation and sherds found.
Four barrows noted here by Ordnance Survey but their existence seems doubtful.
See notes and plans in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 23 May 1990.

November 2016. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
With the exception of the round barrow excavated before 1934, and the associated finds and evidence for cremations, the barrows described above are now recorded individually as NHER 61503-6, and collectively as barrow cemetery NHER 61502. Whether any of these equate to the excavated barrow is not known.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 16th November 2016.

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Weeting.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Publication: Fox, C. 1923. The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region: a topographical study of the Bronze, Early Iron, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon Ages, with an introductory note on the Neolithic Age. p 79.
  • <S2> Publication: Kendrick, T. D. and Hawkes, C. F. C. 1932. Archaeology in England and Wales, 1914-1931. p 25. p 179.
  • <S3> Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. and Apling, H. 1935. An Iron Age Tumulus on Warborough Hill, Stiffkey, Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXV Part III pp 408-428. pp 425-426.
  • <S4> Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. 1939. The Iron Age in Norfolk and Suffolk. The Archaeological Journal. Vol XCVI pp 1-113.
  • <S5> Publication: Grinsell. 1953. Ancient burial mounds. p.25, 41.
  • FLAKE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • HUMAN REMAINS (Early Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 2350 BC to 401 BC)
  • POT (Early Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 2350 BC to 401 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Record last edited

Jan 16 2025 5:06PM

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