Record Details
| NHER Number: | 17910 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Bronze Age barrow/medieval moothill, Spellow Fields |
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Summary
This is the approximate site of a Bronze Age barrow used as the moothill for the lost hundred of Spelhoge during the medieval period.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 561 200 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF52SE |
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| Parish: | TILNEY ALL SAINTS, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
In Spellow Fields (general name for all northern area of parish).
Site of barrow used as moothill for lost hundred of Spelhoge (S1) and (S2).
Enclosure map gives no clue to location except perhaps the name 'Knights Seats' at approximately TF 561 201.
E. Rose (NAU) 8 February 1982.
Monument Types
- ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- MOOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Monograph: Lawson, A. J., Martin, E., Priddy, D. and Taylor, A. 1981. The Barrows of East Anglia. East Anglian Archaeology. No 12. |
| <S2> | Serial: Smith, A.H.. 1956. English Place-Name Elements.. Vol II, 136. p 136. |
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