Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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The more SE of the close pair of barrows on Harpley Common......(taken by wife, using i-phone, from car window – whatever it takes!)
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And another....
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This was not a ‘planned’ visit – I was on the way, with friends, to nearby Houghton Hall, and our sat nav went wayward.
But hey! We ended up at Anmer, and I was aware that there was a long barrow, and a barrow cemetery in the vicinity. As luck would have it, we drove past Harpley Common, where a couple of barrows sit perfectly at the side of the road, just off the Peddars Way.
I stopped, while my wife took a quick pic out of the car window (true amateurs!) – apologies for it’s unglamorous back-drop of pigs....
Anyway, further investigation about the area has made me determined to do it some justice, and explore a wee bit more thoroughly.
Some pretty substantial round barrows to the south east of Anmer – in the vicinity of the Peddars Way.
Well worth a visit if you happen to be in the area, I’d have thought.
Visited 2/4/06.
Sites within 20km of Harpley Common
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Bircham Common Barrows
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West Rudham Longbarrow
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Hill of Peace
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South Creake
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Weasenham All Saints /
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Sea Henge
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Holkham Camp
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