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How Hill – taken one-handed on i-phone at 70+ mph from new dualled section of A11. Apologies for not-a-great-shot...it was this or crash. The comet-looking blur heading for the barrow is actually dead insect remains on windscreen.
Again...apologies....
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Showing how Hetty appears to be clinging on, as her back slides down towards the edge of the hillside.
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Note the uneasy sort of juxtaposition of that bulldozer coming over the heap towards the circle......
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The barrow’s trees were cut down earlier this year. Somehow it’s lost a bit of character/drama/mystique now it’s ‘bald’.
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Looking ENE across the middle of the S. Black Ditches, with the track highlighting the depth. It’s difficult to get good eyeline looking down the ditches.
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Initial view of site, from info board. Hard to see much beyond sheep in a field I’m afraid...
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Looking WSW over Arminghall Henge. With some imagination, it is directly above the top of the sign...with the pylon kinda just beyond the centre. Hmm...
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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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I believe this is the pit with the excavation debris filling it, which came from Pit 2 (which sits behind – with slippage on it’s edge).
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Hill of Health, sitting at the bottom of the garden.... taken from the byway.
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More obvious round barrow, just off the SW end of the long barrow. Appears as a large raised clump of bracken and scrub.
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Small barrow, tucked away in far SW corner of the rectangular Broome Heath. A third disappears into some back gardens (!)....
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From this aspect the long barrow appears to sit up on a bigger mound, mirroring the shape of the barrow itself.
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Looking SE across the long barrow, covered in scrub.
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The view from the car whilst sitting in the lay-by.
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The stone sitting on it’s island between the busy A road and the lay-by.
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Looking west over the barrow. Surrounding ditch is visible, especially on the south (left of pic). The field in the background dips into the Devil’s Ditch, with the ruins of Gasthorpe Church beyond the line of trees.
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Approaching the barrow from the nearby layby, on the Diss to Thetford road.
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