Monument record CLA 005 - Site of Bronze Age round barrow and scatter of worked flints

Barrow (site of) - N of Chilton Street. Shown on 1858 OS map, 1st edition as "tumulus" and on 1886 25" OS map as `Tumulus (site of)'. Slight rise (OS 1950)(R1).
Concentric ring ditch, circa 30m diameter (S1).
1957: `Low mound is visible' (S2)(R1).
1984: `Visible in plough-soil as an irregular mound with a noticeable concentration of large natural flint pebbles, circa 1.0m above surrounding land surface. Fieldwalking produced over 200 worked flints in area of barrow' (S2).

September 2026. South-West Suffolk Claylands Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AI&M) Project.
The site of the Bronze Age round barrow described above is visible as a low, poorly defined earthwork on visualised lidar data (S4), and as the cropmarks of three concentric ring ditches and a large internal pit-like feature on aerial photographs (S1, S5-S7). The site was previously mapped as a single ring ditch by the Essex National Mapping Programme project (S8). There is considerable variation in how the cropmarks show on different aerial photographic sources, and there is also a discrepancy between the location of the earthwork mound (mapped by extent) and the central point of the ring ditches. The multiple ring ditches may indicate that the barrow had a relatively complicated morphology and/or that it was modified over time. The large central pit-like cropmark may indicate that it was a pond barrow. As the earthwork of the mound remains visible on visualised lidar from a relatively recent survey (2022), it is likely that it still survives. A second ring ditch, almost certainly marking another barrow site, is visible 12m to the northwet (CLA 178).
S. Tremlett (Norfolk County Council Environment Team), 8th September 2026.