NHER 3477 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Flitcham Burgh Bronze Age round barrow

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Summary

A Bronze Age round barrow which was used as the meeting point of the Hundred of Freebridge in the medieval period.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TF72NW
Civil Parish	FLITCHAM WITH APPLETON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Tumulus on west side of road from Flitcham to Shernbourne.
1 mile from the turn on the road.
Anciently the moothill of Freebridge Hundred.
See (S1).
R. R. Clarke.

On (S2) R. R. Clarke marked NHER 3540 as the moothill.

(S3) says the Moothill of Freebridge was a tumulus within a square ditch, later moved to Gaywood Oak, then to Fitton Oak at Wiggenhall St Germans.
(S4) says Flitcham Burgh is Paston Clump, now planted with trees, ditches, little altered.
(S5) 'quadrate area et Iceni conclusa fossa Malloborgum'.
R. R. Clarke (NCM)

Paston's Clump is marked on (S6) as Appleton Cross.
E. Rose (NAU)

1976. Site visit.
No sign of a barrow here.
A. J. Lawson (NAU) 16 March 1976.

Associated Sources (13)

--- SNF85968 Article in Serial: Gomme, G. L. 1884. Open-air Hundred Courts in Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol IX pp 62-67. p 65.
--- 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.
--- SNF43 Designation: [unknown]. Ancient Monuments Form. SAM Record. NHER3477.
--- SNF1141 Monograph: 1901. The Victoria History of Norfolk. The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Vol 1. p 276.
--- SNF1026 Publication: 1886. Chronicon Abbatiae Rameseiensis. Roll series XXXIX. Rolls series XXXIX.
--- SNF87258 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Flitchham.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1> SNF4598 Serial: Blomefield, F.. 1805-1810. An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk.. Volume Unknown.
<S2> SNF52555 Map: NCM. NCM Record Map.
<S3> SNF4936 Serial: Bryant, T. H. About 1900. Hundred of Freebridge Lynn.
<S4> SNF4567 Article in Serial: Beloe, E. M. 1891. The Great Fen Road. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiqarian Society. Vol VII No 4 (New Series Vol I) pp 112-130. pp 125-126.
<S5> SNF8290 Publication: Spelman. 1727. Icenia. 2nd edit. p.145.
<S6> SNF49461 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1805-1836. Ordnance Survey Map. One inch to the mile. First Edition.

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Flitcham with Appleton (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Mar 31 2026 4:59PM