Record Details
NHER Number: | 13170 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | Undated inhumation |
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Summary
This is the approximate site where a human skeleton was found during road widening west of East Runton village in 1906. The remains were of a male and were reinterred in the local churchyard.
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Location
Grid Reference: | TG 195 426 |
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Map Sheet: | TG14SE |
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Parish: | RUNTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Approximate site where in road widening on hill west of East Runton village in 1906 a human skeleton was found 4ft deep, 5ft 10in to 6ft in height, male, teeth in good condition. Local legend claimed it was a smuggler killed and buried there. Bones reinterred in churchyard.
This may be the same site as the 'findspot of human bones' where the ghostly light that appears at the mill disappears into the ground.
Information from NCM Bolingbroke Collection and (S1).
See detailed discussion in file.
Another version of the story, told to [1] by a very old man some years ago, was that this was a pedlar of watches who showed his money too freely in the local inn.
E. Rose (NAU) 10 March 1982.
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Sources and further reading
--- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
--- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
--- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1906. [Article on the find of an inhumation]. 25 April. |
--- | Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service. |
<S1> | Serial: Bryant, T. H.. 1898-1915. The Churches of Norfolk. Vols 1-19. Vols 1-19.. |
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