NHER 13114 (Monument record) - Possible site of Bronze Age barrow and site of post medieval gibbet
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL79SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
Site of gibbet as marked on (S1).
E. Rose (NAU), 1980.
(S2) shows a mound marked as The High Doule (doule = boundary mark) approximately this area. If (S1) is confusing gibbets and gallows, as seems probable as gibbets were temporary structures, it may well have stood on a barrow. Note also barrow NHER 4992 but this is much further south.
Information from J. Wymer (NAU) and R. Silvester (NAU).
E. Rose (NAU), 25 January 1989.
January 2020. Breckland National Mapping Programme.
No evidence of the conjectured mound described above was identified at this location on the consulted sources.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 22nd January 2020.
January-May 2015. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of various groundworks at Denton Lodge Water Treatment Works.
Although some of these works coincided with the suggested location of the gibbet, no associated remains were recorded. Whilst it is possible that any associated remains had been damaged or destroyed by modern activity, a review of the cartographic evidence suggests that the gibbet at least probably lay beyond the bounds of the water treatment works.
See report (S1) and NHER 64667 for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 12 March 2021.
Associated Sources (6)
- --- SNF53969 Article in Serial: Whyte, N.. 2003. The after-life of barrows; prehistoric monuments in the Norfolk landscape.. Landscape History. Vol 25, pp 5-17. pp 5-16.
- --- SNF52409 Article in Serial: Whyte, N.. 2003. The Deviant Dead in the Norfolk Landscape.. Landscapes. Vol 4, No 1. pp 24-39.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF101014 Unpublished Contractor Report: Hickling, S. 2015. Denton Lodge Water Treatment Works, Methwold, Norfolk, IP26 4DT. Archaeological monitoring. NPS Archaeology. 2015/1274.
- <S1> SNF6047 Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797.
- <S2> SNF64158 Map: 1607. Map of Methwold.
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Record last edited
Jan 17 2025 11:56AM