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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Eaton Heath
Country: England County: Norfolk Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Norwich
Map Ref: TG21280605
Latitude: 52.607133N  Longitude: 1.266605E
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4Short walk on a footpath
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A Bronze Age linear barrow cemetery is evident as surviving earthworks, the results of antiquarian and modern excavations, and as earthworks and cropmarks visible on aerial photographs. The four barrows lie on what was once Eaton Heath; two were levelled in the construction of a school playing ground, preceded by their partial excavation; two still survive as earthworks on Eaton golf course, although records suggest that both of these were subject to antiquarian excavations.

The modern excavation of the two westernmost barrows recorded evidence of a coffin and recovered sherds of Beaker pottery; the antiquarian excavations found two urns. Later pottery has also been recovered.

Source: http://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?MNF9549
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A group of deep shafts on Eaton Heath by Andy B on Monday, 06 July 2020
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A group of deep shafts on Eaton Heath. clustering around what may have been a Neolithic settlement area. Up to 8m in depth and up to 2m diameter, shallower features to 2.8m depth and rarer double shafts. Containing cultural material of Neolithic and Beaker date and providing a 14C date of 3500–2880 cal BC (95% confidence; BM-772; 4444±103 BP) from the basal deposits of shaft 97A, the excavator interpreted these features as anthropogenic.

Later re-assessments, however, asserted a natural origin for these features (Garrow 2006, 151; Healy 1986, 57-58). The relative absence of discussion of this site within the literature suggests that the shafts at Eaton Heath may have suffered from the previously unhelpful dichotomy concerning the cultural role of natural features within prehistory (Bradley 2000). Anthropogenic or not, the presence of archaeological materials at Eaton Heath suggests that such features may well have acquired an imbued significance.

Refs:
Garrow, D. 2006 Pits, Settlement and Deposition during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in East Anglia, Oxford: British Archaeological Reports British Series 414. https://doi.org/10.30861/9781841717487

Healy, F. 1986 'The excavation of two Early Bronze Age round barrows on Eaton Heath, Norwich, 1969-70' in A.J. Lawson, 'Barrow excavations in Norfolk, 1950-82', East Anglian Archaeology 29, 50-8. http://eaareports.org.uk/publication/report29/

Bradley, R. 2000 An Archaeology of Natural Places, London: Routledge.

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Norfolk Heritage Parish Summary: Eaton by Andy B on Monday, 06 July 2020
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Eaton is a southern suburb of Norwich. The name Eaton derives from the Old English meaning ‘enclosure by a river’. This would make perfect sense as the River Yare runs through Eaton. The parish has a long history and was certainly well established by the time of the Norman Conquest, its population, land ownership and productive resources being extensively detailed in the Domesday Book of 1086. This document reveals that a certain Edric held the majority of the lands here.

Aside from a possible Mesolithic hammerstone (NHER 9447), the earliest records for Eaton date to the Neolithic period. Excavations on Eaton Heath in 1971 recorded pit groups and ritual shafts, along with rectilinear enclosures and ditch systems (NHER 9544). Although many of these features are more indicative of Romano-British occupation it was felt that an earlier Neolithic settlement was also located here. Antiquarians also recorded the presence of Neolithic flint mines on Eaton Dell (NHER 9547), although many of these pits had later finds within them – such as Roman pottery sherds. Unfortunately no trace of these mines was found when the road bypass was built here.

More at http://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?TNF1257
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