NHER 2616 (Monument record) - Possible burial mounds of unknown date

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Summary

Sources suggest that there are three or four tumuli or burial mounds, as well as a number of holes refered to as Danes Graves, although a site visit in 1976 found no evidence.

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Location

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Civil Parish OXBOROUGH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Three or four tumuli (burial mounds) close together on the Common, 'across the river that divides the town from the common', a little south of church (NHER 2619) and town (NHER 2634). Also a number of holes 3.6m to 4.6m by 1.8m to 2.7m called Danes Graves, near the river. (S1) and (S2). (S3) states many tumuli about Oxborough.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

23 January 1976.
No sign of any barrows. Could these be small glacial mounds or drumlins associated with kettle-holes or pingoes on Foulden Common?
A. Lawson (NCM), 5 March 1976.

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Oxbough.
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Miscellaneous. Oxborough.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Monograph: Blomefield, F. 1806. The History of The City and County of Norwich, Part I. An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk. Vol III. p 474.
  • <S2> Serial: Blomefield, F. 1807. An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk. Vol VI. p 168.
  • <S3> Monograph: East Anglian Archaeology. East Anglian Archaeology. No XII.

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Record last edited

Oct 7 2013 4:01PM

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