NHER 6185 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Bronze Age round barrow

Tumulus marked by Ordnance Survey map (S1) in Salthouse Heath Plantation (formerly Cley Common).
Difficut to find.
L. V. Grinsell and R. R. Clarke (NCM).

1974. Visit.
Unlocated in wood due to dense growth of rhododendrons
A.J. Lawson (NAU), 30 January 1974.

Not scheduled despite misleading schedule map. Information from Department of Environment 1984.
E. Rose (NAU), 16 November 1984.

June 1986. Area cleared.
Bowl barrow 14m diameter, about 1m high. No trace of ditch. Tall thin oaks on mound.
J. Wymer (NAU), June 1986.

May 1994. Visit.
Situated in Taylor's Wood, at present under scrub. This renders site difficult to recognise. However a grant aided woodland management scheme is currently being undertaken with no replanting on the mound itself.
H. Paterson (NLA), 23 May 1994.

November 1995. Scheduled jointly with NHER 6184.
Schedule Description:
The monument includes two bowl barrows within a dispersed round barrow cemetery extending over an area of c.1.3 sq km on and immediately around Salthouse Heath. The two barrows, which are situated c.140m from the boundary between the parishes of Cley next the Sea and Salthouse, to the north east and east, are visible as earthen mounds c.23m apart on a north east to south west alignment. The larger mound, to the north east, stands to a height of c.1m and covers a circular area with a diameter of c.14m. The second mound measures c.1m in height and c.12m in diameter. It is thought that each of the mounds is encircled by a ditch c.2.5m wide, from which earth was dug and used in the construction of the barrows. These ditches have become infilled and are no longer visible on the ground surface, but will survive as buried features.
The estimated overall diameters of the mounds are therefore 19m and 17m respectively.
Information from (S2) and (S3).

October 2002. Norfolk NMP.
Site of Bronze Age barrow within woodland at Cley Common. The NMP Project has not mapped the barrow mound as the monument was obscured by tree coverage on all of the available aerial photographs.
S. Massey (NMP), 7 May 2003.