Poorly Located Monument record HLM 034 - Artefact scatter of unknown date, including funeral pottery and animal bones

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Summary

March 1864: Cemetery `funereal pottery and animal bones recorded and excavated by Rev Cardew'. Formerly recorded as HLM MISC

Location

Grid reference TM 18 58 (point) Poorly located
Map sheet TM15NE
Civil Parish HELMINGHAM, MID SUFFOLK, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (2)

Full Description

March 1864: Cemetery `funereal pottery and animal bones recorded and excavated by Rev Cardew'. "... Within the recollection of many persons living, two more (in addition to HLM 004 & 005) ancient cemeteries have been met with in this parish, on land belonging to Mr Tollemache, but there being no one here at the time to call attention to the matter, they passed almost unnoticed. One was on a pleasant slope facing the East, on a farm about a mile from the Church, in the occupation of Mr Fulcher, and must have been of much the same character as that now opened at the Rectory (HLM 004). I have dug there, and found countless fragments of funereal pottery and human and animal bones confusedly mingled with the soil, the result of recent disturbances". For the other cemetry, see Misc, CRN 11163. "In both these instances the human remains were so numerous as to require a cart for their removal; and at Mr Fulcher's, the labourers tell me, the urns were whole when found. They were met with in operations in connection with the making of a road, and I need not say, irrecoverably destroyed" (S1)(S3). "A leaden ampulla (?two handled flask) and fragments of urns and scattered human bones were found ..." (?this site)(S2)(R1).
Note: Ms of Rev Cardew's excavations in Ipswich Museum & Tollemache library.

Formerly recorded as HLM MISC

Sources/Archives (5)

  • <R1> (No record type): Proc Soc Antiq (2nd ser), 2, 420.
  • <S1> (No record type): Cardew G, Ipswich Journal, 26 March 1864.
  • <M1> Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish Files. Parish file: (S3), extract from (S1).
  • <S2> Bibliographic reference: 1911. Victoria County History, Suffolk (VCH). 308.
  • <S3> (No record type): Cardew Rev G, JBAA, 21, 1865, 271.

Finds (3)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

May 21 2020 8:35AM

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