Monument record EUN 005 - Possible round barrow or mill mound of unknown date.
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Summary
Location
Grid reference | Centred TL 9064 7761 (57m by 57m) |
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Map sheet | TL97NW |
Civil Parish | EUSTON, ST EDMUNDSBURY, SUFFOLK |
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Type and Period (3)
Full Description
Possible round barrow or mill mound.
1962: On the crest of E bank, overlooking floodplain of Black Bourn river at about 80 ft OD, there is a large mound formerly circular but now extremely mutilated and overgrown. The mound measures circa 36m in diameter and 1m high. It is surrounded by a ditch averaging 1m in depth, well preserved on the N and W but destroyed on the SW and SE by town buildings and a hedgerow respectively. In the centre of the mound there is a small ill-defined lump? measuring about 16m in diameter and 0.8m high. It is separated from the ditch by a sloping berm about 10m in width.
No information regarding this feature was obtained locally or at Moyses Hall Museum but its general appearance strongly suggests a barrow, possibly of bell disc type (S1).
23 January 1976: Bell-disc barrow? Mill mound? Covered with grass and trees. Ditch only goes halfway round on W side. Mound height circa 2.83m diameter circa 43.5m (inside ditch), ditch width circa 7.4m, depth 0.35m (unexcavated) (R1).
Site incorrectly ascribed to Fakenham by Basil Brown (S2).
February 1998: Scheduled as bell barrow - details in (S3).
Sources/Archives (9)
- <R1> SSF18978 (No record type): SAU, Barrow survey, 23 January 1976.
- <M1> SSF46754 (No record type): Barrow survey:.
- <S1> SSF50032 Index: OS. OS Card. OS, card TL97NW3 (ill), 1962.
- <R2> SSF18215 (No record type): SAU AP, AEC 8.
- <S2> SSF50035 Unpublished document: Basil Brown. Basil Brown Archive. Brown B, X, 47, 59 ; XCVI, 24.
- <M2> SSF50035 Unpublished document: Basil Brown. Basil Brown Archive. Basil Brown archive: volumes.
- <M3> SSF46756 (No record type): AP: AEC 8.
- <S3> SSF5740 (No record type): English Heritage, scheduling information.
- <M4> SSF46757 (No record type): SAM file: (S3).
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Record last edited
Jul 2 2019 5:13PM