NHER 61555 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Undated oval mound, perhaps a prehistoric barrow

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Summary

An oval mound, perhaps a Neolithic or Bronze Age oval or round barrow, is visible as an earthwork on imagery from a 2015 lidar survey. It could be part of what appears to be a large, dispersed, Bronze Age round barrow cemetery (NHER 62464). It lies, however, in an area of what appears on the lidar to be uneven, ‘lumpy’ ground, and, like another nearby mound (NHER 62477), it could instead be of natural, perhaps periglacial, origin.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL88SW
Civil Parish THETFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

November 2018. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
An oval mound, perhaps a Neolithic or Bronze Age oval or round barrow, is visible as an earthwork on imagery from a 2015 lidar survey (S1). It could be part of what appears to be a large, dispersed, Bronze Age round barrow cemetery (NHER 62464). It lies, however, in an area of what appears on the lidar to be uneven, ‘lumpy’ ground, and, like another nearby mound (NHER 62477), it could instead be of natural, perhaps periglacial, origin.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 29 November 2018.

  • <S1> LIDAR Airborne Survey: Various. LIDAR Airborne Survey. LIDAR Thetford Forest Research 0.5m DTM 17-JUL-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial).

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2021 6:12PM

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