Monument record IKL 029 - Bronze-Age cemetry and inhumation.
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Summary
Location
Grid reference | Centred TL 7595 7604 (50m by 50m) Centred on |
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Map sheet | TL77NE |
Civil Parish | ICKLINGHAM, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK |
Map
Type and Period (3)
Full Description
After deep ploughing in January 1953 revealed black soil patches, the ploughman (? Mr S Wiseman), partially excavated "Site A".
Grace Briscoe continued excavation of upturned collared urn and cremation, sherds of "a small accessory vessel and a lump of slag" (?)(S1). "Site B": 12 ft NW of site "A", a black patch of soil covered a hollow in the chalk containing "a flexed skeleton on its right side facing NE - probably a boy of circa 11 yrs - no grave goods".
"Site C": 73 ft NE of site "A" "a further black soil patch, 3 ft by 2 ft, two-thirds in a chalk hollow", contained "sherds of food-vessel type, charcoal and a scrap of bone", "burnt chalk and stones and some powder which was possibly decayed bone".
"Site D": 36 ft NE of site "A" a further patch of black soil but no finds `of interest'.
"Site E": 9 ft NE of "A" "black patch with a small piece of bone, underlain by patch with morepieces of cranial bone, almost certainly from an inhumation". Also dark grey `rouletted' sherd.
Briscoe suggests probable site of ploughed out barrow (S1)(S4)(R1). Note close to How Hill (IKL 001). Further information in Briscoe archive.
Sources/Archives (9)
- <R1> SSF1479 (No record type): Briscoe G, PCAS, 54, 1961, 20-21.
- <S1> SSF50032 Index: OS. OS Card. OS, card TL77NE7.
- <M1> SSF50035 Unpublished document: Basil Brown. Basil Brown Archive. Basil Brown archive: volumes.
- <M2> SSF36929 (No record type): G Briscoe archive:.
- <S2> SSF50042 Bibliographic reference: Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. PSIA, 29, 1962, (2), 177.
- <M3> SSF36930 (No record type): Museums file: Elveden.
- <S3> SSF50035 Unpublished document: Basil Brown. Basil Brown Archive. Brown B, XI, 100; XCVI, 72,77 (includes 2 press cuttings).
- <S4> SSF1478 (No record type): Briscoe G, PCAS, 48, 1955, 6-9, (ill).
- <S5> SSF59794 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record Of the Historic Environment.
Finds (4)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Related Monuments/Buildings (0)
Related Events/Activities (2)
Record last edited
Oct 26 2021 9:28AM