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Three Halfpenny Hill is a bowl barrow situated on Salthouse Heath in Norfolk, forming part of a wider barrow cemetery in this region. The monument is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound, representing a significant concentration of prehistoric funerary monuments characteristic of Norfolk's ancient landscape. As a bowl barrow, it consists of a simple mound of earth and rubble raised over a burial or burials, a common form of grave marker employed over several centuries in prehistory. The barrow cemetery of which it forms part reflects the sustained use of this area for mortuary practices across the prehistoric period.
Bowl barrow known as Three Halfpenny Hill: part of a barrow cemetery on and around Salthouse Heath is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013565. View the official record →
Three Halfpenny Hill is a bowl barrow situated on Salthouse Heath in Norfolk, forming part of a wider barrow cemetery in this region. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013565.
Bowl barrow known as Three Halfpenny Hill: part of a barrow cemetery on and around Salthouse Heath is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1013565.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 260m NNW of Lowes Farm: part of a barrow cemetery on and around Salthouse Heath (0.3 km), Bowl barrow 450m north west of Lowes Farm: part of a barrow cemetery on and around Salthouse Heath (0.4 km), Bowl barrow 400m east of Swan Lodge: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery on and around Salthouse Heath (0.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow known as Three Halfpenny Hill: part of a barrow cemetery on and around Salthouse Heath's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Bowl barrow known as Three Halfpenny Hill: part of a barrow cemetery on and around Salthouse Heath stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.