NHER 6180 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Bronze Age round barrow

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Summary

A Bronze Age round barrow is marked on a map compiled in around 1850. It survives as a low mound.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG04SE
Civil Parish CLEY NEXT THE SEA, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Tumulus. On heathland south of NHER 6178.
1.2m (4ft), marked by member of the public [1].
Not seen in 1936.
Ploughed 1950, 11.8m (13yds) diameter, 0.38m (1.25ft) high.
R. R. Clarke (NCM) 1950.

See (S1).

1974. Visit.
No sign.
A. J. Lawson (NAU), 30 January 1974.

October 2002. Norfolk NMP.
Earthwork of a possible round barrow, which is faintly discernible on the 1946 RAF aerial photographs (S2). The diameter of the mound appears to be around 18m, although the exact dimensions are hard to discern. This is smaller than the dimensions given by the NMR records, which state it was 23.8m in 1950. A small strip along the western side already looks like the plough is clipping the mound in 1946.
S. Massey (NMP), 23 December 2002.

May 2003. Field observations.
Under plough. Slight hump along line of fence.
D. Gurney (NLA), 18 June 2003.

October 2005.
It is not clear if the reference to '1.2m (4ft)' above refers to height or diameter of barrow as recorded by member of the public [1]. It is not a distance measurement from barrow NHER 6178.
D. Robertson (NLA), 24 October 2005.

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Cley-next-the-sea.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Map: Bolding, W.J.J.. 1800-1850. Map of Barrows on Salthouse Heath.. Paper. 14 inches to the mile. No 21.
  • <S2> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1571 3165-6 07-JUN-1946 (Norfolk SMR TG 0642B, TG 0742A).

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Record last edited

Jan 13 2025 2:50PM

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