Blood Hill, Thetford, Norfolk: Report on Geophysical Surveys, May 2024
Author(s): Megan Clements, Neil Linford, Paul Linford, Andy Payne, Nathalie Barrett
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) (0.21ha) and earth resistance (0.19ha) surveys together with an Electrical Resistance Tomography (ERT) profile (87m) were conducted over the mound known as Blood Hill, Thetford Forest, Thetford, following a request by the Historic England East of England Regional Team to identify and locate the full extent of the barrow and any evidence for a buried ditch. The geophysical surveys suggest the current monument covers an original, circular barrow mound and some anomalies suggest the encircling barrow ditch has been infilled. The earth resistance and ERT results also support a tentative interpretation that the barrow was originally higher and has been flattened either through deliberate landscape re-shaping, erosion associated with the ride and movement across the mound, or through excavation into the monument.
- Report Number:
- 62/2024
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 29
- Keywords:
- Earth Resistance Geophysical Survey Ground Penetrating Radar Electrical Resistance Tomography
