Poorly Located Monument record SUY 191 - Roadside burial of a suicide, 1783, with "a stake drove through his body"

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Summary

Roadside burial of a suicide, 1783, with "a stake drove through his body". Formerly recorded as SUY MISC

Location

Grid reference TL 87 41 (point) Poorly located
Map sheet TL84SE
Civil Parish SUDBURY, BABERGH, SUFFOLK

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Full Description

Roadside burial of a suicide. 1783: Mr Harwood, Millwright, took arsenic. "Buried in the crossway with a stake drove through his body" (S1; Bury & Norwich Post 25 Sept 1783).

Formerly recorded as SUY MISC

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <S1> Bibliographic reference: Folklore Journal. Halliday R,'Roadside Burial of Suicides: An East Anglian Study, Folklore 121, April 2010, 91.

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  • None recorded

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Record last edited

May 21 2020 8:38AM

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