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<< Our Photo Pages >> Bircham Common Barrows - Barrow Cemetery in England in Norfolk

Submitted by vicky on Wednesday, 29 September 2004  Page Views: 9625

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bircham Common Barrows
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.394 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Norfolk Type: Barrow Cemetery

Map Ref: TF775306  Landranger Map Number: 132
Latitude: 52.843654N  Longitude: 0.634116E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
3

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Bircham Common Barrows
Bircham Common Barrows submitted by bec-zog : Tofts Dale barrow in Norfolk (Vote or comment on this photo)
Barrow Cemetery of bell and bowl barrows in Norfolk

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Bircham Common Barrows submitted by durhamnature : Gold beads from the barrows, from "Early Man In Britain" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Bircham Common Barrows submitted by bec-zog : Toftsdale 776306 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Bircham Common Barrows submitted by bec-zog : Toftsdale 775310 (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Bircham Common Barrows
Bircham Common Barrows submitted by bec-zog : Toftsdale 774312 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
TF7730 : Rural road in late Autumn by Adrian S Pye
by Adrian S Pye
©2017(licence)
TF7730 : Harvested arable field by Philip Halling
by Philip Halling
©2015(licence)
TF7730 : Private Gate by Keith Evans
by Keith Evans
©2007(licence)
TF7730 : Disused pit south of Great Bircham by Richard Humphrey
by Richard Humphrey
©2011(licence)
TF7730 : Pig sties near The Triangles by Jonathan Thacker
by Jonathan Thacker
©2022(licence)

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Re: Bircham Common Barro by NocaBaret on Wednesday, 06 February 2019
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There is an alignment of a number of these barrows/tumps/tumuli,which seems to mirror or map Ursa Major,the constellation of The Plough.I first noticed this whilst poring over an OS map in the late seventies-It is also worth noting that the aforementioned alignment also aligns with a farm adjacent to Houghton Estate named North Star or Pole Star Farm(I forget which precisely).A few years later I found my idea confirmed by Paul Devereaux in his Ley Hunters Companion.Upon attempting to reconstruct that original alignment I have found that the combined assets of the latest OS maps,Google Earth,Google Maps etc.far from providing an unambiguous reiteration thereof have rather yielded a plethora of acknowledged and very plausible barrows,tumuli,tumps,earthworks,springs etc. and such profusion occasions confusion and obfuscation.
What the sites and markers of this region lack in their modest and simple construction they more than compensate for in their abundance.
From a point South,South-East of,say,Litcham,expanding in a radial arc outward and Northward encompassing Weasenham,Massingham,Harpley,The Rudhams,Harpley Dams,Houghton,Anmer,Bircham not to mention the Acres,Castle,South and West with their wealth of medieval.saxon and ,by default,pre-existing sites of singular significance-there are dozens,maybe scores of ancient and valid markers to consider.As to some overweaning purpose or pattern to it all ?Consider the quantum universe-not as a coherent,symmetrical,predictable network of particles,connections and reciprocity but as a constantly fluctuating series of fields acrosss which countless tiny flashes,explosions,exchanges and ejections of energies are occurring ..by such chaos all that we are is defined.
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Re: Bircham Common Barro by coldrum on Saturday, 10 April 2010
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Re: Bircham Common Barro by Anonymous on Saturday, 08 April 2006
Where are these finds kept? Are they on display?
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Re: Bircham Common Barro by bec-zog on Wednesday, 29 September 2004
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Bircham Common Barrows site Tofts Dale TF775316
LInear collection of barrows lying beside the road from Great Bircham to Houghton Hall park.South of road two two bowl & one bell barrow. North of the road is another bell barrow 1.8m high 27m diam. It contained a flint cairn containing cremated remains in a collared urn plus a bronze awl & gold covered beads
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