NHER 7532 (Monument record) - Bronze Age round barrows

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Summary

A number of Bronze Age round barrows are recorded on Stow Heath, although no obvious trace of them survives. One was excavated in 1808 and two Bronze Age urns were found. One was upside down and both contained human bones.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	Not recorded
Civil Parish	FELMINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

Great Barrow. On Stow Heath near Tuttington border.

1808. Excavation.
27.5m (30yds) diameter, about 1.2m (4ft) high and surrounded by several others, at least 18.3m (20yds) diameter. Found to contain inverted urn, covering a few bones, and another urn, mouth upwards, bedded on flints latter contained small quantity of ashes and fragments of charcoal.
Comapre with (S1) (copy in file; pots and section); (S2), (S3) (inverted urn found 0.6m (2ft) from centre of barrow, second urn found 0.9-1.2m (3-4ft) away). (S4) (copy from (S1) of drawings).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

Ordnance Survey map (S5) marks 'Stow Heath' at TG 238 266 which is underlined by R. R. Clarke (NCM); but he points out that NHER 7533 was also on Stow Heath before the Enclosure. But (S6) marks Stow Heath Common only in the valley running west from the present heath to Tuttington.
E. Rose (NAU).

Heath now coppice. No positive identification of barrows as obvious quarrying with waterfilled pits. One or two higher areas may be dumps, or remains of barrows.
A. J. Lawson (NAU), 6 February 1975.

(S7) say two urn cremations, one inverted on a 'tile'.
R. J. Rickett (NAU), 22 May 1990.

Associated Sources (10)

--- SNF87258 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Felmingham.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF646 Serial: 1812. Archaeol. VolXVI. vol.XVI p.354-5. pp 354-355.
<S2> SNF4432 Article in Serial: [unknown]. Archaeol.. Vol XXIII, pp 370-2. pp 370-372.
<S3> SNF1540 Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1913. Norfolk Barrows. The Antiquary. Vol XLIX pp 416-423. p 418.
<S4> SNF4274 Documentary Source: Various. Drawings, engravings and etchings, including numerous portraits, maps, etc, collected by Dawson Turner to illustrate Blomefield's "History of Norfolk" 1810-1847. Add MS 23024-23052. Vol XXIII; f.151 (Add MS 23046).
<S5> SNF52555 Map: NCM. NCM Record Map.
<S6> SNF6047 Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797.
<S7> SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 22 NW 7.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)

Object Types (3)

HUMAN REMAINS (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
TILE (Undated)

Related NHER Records (0)

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Felmingham (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Jan 17 2025 1:25PM