NHER 1363 (Monument record) - Possible Bronze Age barrow, Barrow Common
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF74SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | BRANCASTER, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
June 1952.
91m (100 yards) west of concrete emplacements for old radio location site, in disturbed ground. Fragments of Middle Bronze Age and Late Bronze Age and pieces of charcoal, also Roman sherds. On Barrow Common, which is named on Bryant's 1826 map (S1).
Bronze Age pottery donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1952.133).
Information from (S2) and (S3).
The prehistoric pottery from this site is listed as undiagnostic later Bronze Age body sherds in (S4).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 15 July 2018.
Small mound 10m diameter 30cm high grassed may be the disturbance mentioned above or ?small barrow. No other mounds found on heath.
A. Lawson (NAU), 23 March 1976.
1994. Metal detecting.
Same approximate area.
Roman and medieval coins.
See list in file.
I.D. J. Davies (NCM) 16 February 1995.
W. Milligan (NCM) 30 January 1995.
Associated Sources (7)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 74 SE 11.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF4947 Map: Bryant, A.. 1826. Bryant's Map of Norfolk.
- <S2> SNF87258 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Brancaster.
- <S3> SNF87260 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Brancaster.
- <S4> SNF2643 Article in Monograph: Lawson, A. J. 1980. The evidence for Later Bronze Age settlement and burial in Norfolk. Settlement and Society in the British Late Bronze Age. Barrett, J. and Bradley, R. BAR British Series 83 pp 271-293. No 5.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)
Object Types (5)
- POT (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
- WORKED OBJECT (Undated)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
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Record last edited
Jan 13 2025 6:18PM