Summary

Bowl barrow at Mill Hill, most likely of Bronze Age origin, possibly reused as a windmill mound.

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Details

PRINCIPAL ELEMENTS
This barrow survives as an earthen mound covered in rough grass and bracken with a surrounding ditch. The mound measures approximately 27m in diameter and 1.8m high with a 2m berm between the mound and surrounding ditch. The ditch is evident as a very shallow depression but the growth of bracken and nettles follow the line of the ditch particularly on the south and west sides indicating the line of the feature. The ditch is c3m wide.

EXTENT OF SCHEDULING
The scheduled area includes a 2m buffer zone around the combined circumference of the mound and ditch.

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Reasons for Scheduling

The bowl barrow at Mill Hill, most likely of Bronze Age origins is scheduled for the following principal reasons:

* Survival: as a well preserved earthwork monument representing the diversity of burial practices, beliefs and social organisation amongst early prehistoric communities;

* Potential: for the stratified archaeological deposits which retain considerable potential to provide invaluable evidence not only for the individuals buried within but also evidence for the ideology, variation in burial practices and social organisation of the communities and social networks that were using the landscape in this way;

* Group value: for its close proximity to other related and contemporary scheduled monuments such as the bowl barrows, on Lowster Hill (NHLE 1003931) at Waterhouse Lodge (NHLE 1004039) and the group of tumuli on Sparrow Hill (1004037). The barrow also forms part of a multi-period landscape unencumbered by modern development and therefore offers a very high level of archaeological potential to enable understanding of the continuity and change in the use of the landscape from the Bronze Age up to the present day.

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Sources

Books and journals
Clarke, W G, In Breckland Wilds, (1925), 186
Lawson, AJ, Martin, EA, Priddy, D, Taylor, A, East Anglian Archaeology Report No. 12 The Barrows of East Anglia, (1981)
Clarke, W G , 'Norfolk Barrows' in Antiquary, , Vol. XLIX, (1913), 422-23
Other
Norfolk Historic Environment Record no. 7370

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