NHER 3531 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Bronze Age barrow

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The mound of this Bronze Age barrow stands around 1m high on a platform itself 80cm above normal ground level. The platform is 23m in diameter. It is surrounded by a ditch up to 4m wide. The ditch has now been infilled. The barrow is part of a cluster of Bronze Age barrows on Harpley Common.

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Map sheet TF72NE
Civil Parish HARPLEY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Bell Barrow 670m NE of Crow Hall, Harpley Common.

Barrow.
About 91m (100 yards) east of Peddars Way and 594m (650 yards) south of crossing of Peddars Way and Anmer to Rudham road. Well defined tumulus, height about 2.44m (8 feet), 29m (32 yards) diameter with ditch 90cm to 1.5m (3 to 5 feet) wide. Practically no bank. Covered dense braken. Apparently undug.
A.Q. Watson, 1935.

1937 to 1938.
Ditch almost ploughed out.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

1974.
21m diameter, 2m high with hint of ditch. Covered in elders in ploughed field.
A.J. Lawson (NAU), 7 February 1974.

1981.
Now 20m diameter, better preserved than neighbouring barrows owing to elder bushes on it.
D.A. Edwards (NAU), 18 May 1981.

August 1983.
Mound in good order, 2 to 3m area around not ploughed, yet no trace of ditch now visible.

February 1988 and February 1989.
Mound seriously damaged by ploughing.
J.J. Wymer (NAU).

  • --- Aerial Photograph: TF7527 A-D; TF7528 B,D-F; TF7628 A-C,E; TF7627 E,P-U,W-Z,AR-AS,AU-AV,ABL,ABM.
  • --- Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1913. Norfolk Barrows. The Antiquary. Vol XLIX pp 416-423.
  • --- Article in Serial: Robertson, D. & Paterson, H.. 2010. The Norfolk Monuments Management Project 1990-2010. Twenty Years Conserving the County's Rural Historic Environment.. Norfolk Archaeology. XLVI, pp 15-28.
  • --- Designation: English Heritage. 1990-2013. English Heritage Scheduling Notification. Notification. DNF124.
  • --- Designation: English Heritage. 1994? -2011?. English Heritage Digital Designation Record. Record. DNF124.
  • --- Monograph: Lawson, A. J., Martin, E., Priddy, D. and Taylor, A. 1981. The Barrows of East Anglia. East Anglian Archaeology. No 12.
  • --- Photograph: CXT 6, EME 2-5, EMV 6, EQG 15-16, EQF 13.
  • --- Photograph: Edwards, D.A.. 1989. CXT 8 to 9, CXX 6 to 7, EQF 11 to 12, EQG 13 to 14. Harpley Barrows.
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Harpley.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 72 NE 17 [4].
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • --- Unpublished Document: Edwards, D.A.. 1989. Statement on the Aerial Photography of Plough Damage to Four Prehistoric Burial Mounds (Scheduled Ancient Monuments) at Harpley, Norfolk. 22 February.
  • --- Unpublished Document: Edwrds, D.. 1983. Condition report on barrows at Harpley and Anmer Minque.
  • --- Unpublished Document: Lukis, F.C.. Extract from one of the Lukis M.S. Note Books in Guernsey Museum..
  • --- Unpublished Document: Paterson, H. (A&E). Norfolk Ancient Monuments Management Project Site Form.
  • --- Unpublished Document: Wymer, J.. 1989. A statement on the discovery of recent plough-damage to four prehistoric burial mounds scheduled as Ancient Monuments. 21 February.
  • --- Unpublished Report: Wymer, J. 1988. A Further Report on the Condition of Barrows in the County and the Question of their Preservation.

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Jul 14 2021 2:57PM

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