NHER 61484 (Landscape record) - Large dispersed Bronze Age barrow cemetery landscape
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL79SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
October 2016. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
This area contains numerous prehistoric barrows which form a dispersed funerary landscape. This includes several clusters of Bronze Age round barrows which form distinct cemetery groups of barrows. Cemetery groups NHER 61535, NHER 61495, NHER 61495, NHER 62104 and NHER 61498 are located within the western part of Weeting and Hockwold parishes whilst cemetery group NHER 61986 is located within the eastern part of Weeting parish. Also within this area are examples of more dispersed and isolated barrows, for example NHER 61975, NHER 33316, and NHER 49735.
S. Horlock (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 10 October 2016.
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Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (0)
Related NHER Records (26)
- Geographical: NHER 62104 - Parent of: Barrow cemetery (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 61986 - Parent of: Bronze Age round barrow cemetery (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 33704 - Parent of: Cropmark of a probable Bronze Age round barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 32249 - Parent of: Cropmarks of possible Bronze Age round barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 61527 - Parent of: Earthworks of a mound, possibly a round barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 33315 - Parent of: Earthworks ofa possible damaged round barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 61570 - Parent of: Former earthworks of mounds of uncertain archaeological date and significance (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 5616 - Parent of: Pepper Hill Bronze Age Bowl Barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 33316 - Parent of: Possible Bronze Age round barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 62026 - Parent of: Possible earthworks of a Bronze Age round barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 62097 - Parent of: Possible earthworks of a Bronze Age round barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 62105 - Parent of: Possible mound of uncertain date and significance (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 61988 - Parent of: Possible mound of uncertain date and significance (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 62028 - Parent of: Possible mound of uncertain date and significance (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 62089 - Parent of: Possible mound of uncertain date and significance (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 61989 - Parent of: Possible mound of uncertain date and significance (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 49735 - Parent of: Probable Bronze Age barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 51536 - Parent of: Probable Bronze Age round barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 61494 - Parent of: Soilmarks of two possible Bronze Age round barrows (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 61975 - Parent of: The earthworks of a possible Bronze Age round barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 61574 - Parent of: The earthworks of a possible Neolithic or Bronze Age round barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 61495 - Parent of: The site of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 61515 - Parent of: The site of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 61535 - Parent of: The site of a Neolithic and/or Bronze Age barrow cemetery (Cropmark and Earthwork)
- Geographical: NHER 61498 - Parent of: The site of a possible Bronze Age round barrow cemetery (Landscape)
- Geographical: NHER 15525 - Parent of: Wafes Howe Bronze Age round barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Record last edited
Jul 23 2025 8:09AM