NHER 63630 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Probable Bronze Age round barrow

THE BRONZE AGE ROUND BARROW DESCRIBED BELOW WAS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AS PART OF NHER 4995.

February 2020. Breckland National Mapping Programme.
A probable Bronze Age round barrow, previously recorded as part of NHER 4995, survives as an earthwork at Mount Ephraim, Weeting. It is visible on visualised lidar data (S1). Together with a second round barrow (NHER 63631) and a pond barrow (NHER 11522) to its southwest, it formed part of a probable linear barrow cemetery (NHER 63629). This in turn lies on the northern edge of a wider dispersed group of barrows and possible cemeteries (NHER 61484), while a less dense spread of probable barrows is evident on former Cranwich Heath to the north (NHER 63617 and 63618 for example). As it is clearly visible on visualised lidar data from a survey flown in 2015, it is probable that the earthwork still survives.
There are suggestions in NHER 4995, and in National Record of the Historic Environment Record 380525 (S2), that there is a buried external ring ditch, and signs of antiquarian investigations of the mound. Neither are visible on the consulted sources.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 14th February 2020.