NHER 5785 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Probable Bronze Age barrow

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Summary

An undated ring ditch is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. It is the remains of a round barrow and is probably Bronze Age. In 1961 and 1976 the barrow mound survived, but there was evidence that it had been damaged by ploughing.

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  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF92NE
Civil Parish KETTLESTONE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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1959. Ring ditch on St Joseph aerial photographs's.

September 1961.
Mound about 0.9m (3 feet) high, much spread by ploughing about 30m (100 feet) diameter north to south, about 33m (110 feet) east to west.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

'Barrow 1'. 34m diameter, 50cm high, looks as if it has been dug into. Ploughed.
(S1), (S2), (S3).
A.J. Lawson (NAU), 1976.

January 1984.
Two entries given by J. Wymer for this county number.
One says 'Ploughed and much degraded but still 0.5m high; four flakes found'.
Other says 'Much reduced from 0.5m high as in 1976, now only slight swelling'.
Is one of these under a wrong county number, or were two visits made in January between which the mound was ploughed away?
E. Rose (NAU).

  • --- Aerial Photograph: St. Joseph, ZP 68, Unit TF9529 A-ABF,ADD-ADK,AEU-AEV.
  • --- Photograph: CXY 4.
  • --- Photograph: Wymer, J. 1984. Norfolk Historic Environment Service Photography: Film CXY. Site Visits by Norfolk Archaeological Unit Staff. Norfolk Historic Environment Service Film Collection. CXY/ 4.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 92 NE 7; TF 92 NE 13 [2].
  • --- Serial: 1960. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1960. No 7. p 4.
  • --- Unpublished Document: 1961. (Pensthorpe) Kettlestone.
  • <S1> Article in Monograph: Edwards, D. 1976. The Air Photographs Collection of the Norfolk Archaeological Unit.. Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 2 pp 251-269. p 264.
  • <S2> Monograph: Lawson, A. J., Martin, E., Priddy, D. and Taylor, A. 1981. The Barrows of East Anglia. East Anglian Archaeology. No 12.
  • <S3> Publication: Meaney, A.. 1964. Gazetteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites. p 177.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)

Record last edited

Feb 7 2024 11:26AM

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