Record Details
| NHER Number: | 12293 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of post medieval gibbet and human remains, Badley Moor |
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Summary
Old documentary sources point to this being the site of a gibbet where a criminal named Cliffe was executed in 1785. Apparently his bones were ploughed up some years later and his skull taken into private possession.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 022 112 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG01SW |
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| Parish: | YAXHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
On Badley Moor (which was much larger then than as now marked on Ordnance Survey map, and was also known as Bradley or Radley Moor) a criminal named Cliffe was gibbetted in 1785: his body was buried fifty years later.
The skull was later dug up. The gibbet is in NCM.
Information from NCM Bolingbroke Collection (S1).
In fact the bones were ploughed up only a few years after they were buried and the skull passed into private possession.
Site located from (S2).
Monument Types
- GIBBET (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- HUMAN REMAINS (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Article in Serial: Whyte, N.. 2003. The Deviant Dead in the Norfolk Landscape.. Landscapes. Vol 4, No 1. pp 24-39. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Archive: Bolingbroke Collection. |
| <S2> | Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797. |
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