Record Details
| NHER Number: | 6536 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Edgefield Mount |
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Summary
The Mount was though to have been a feature of some antiquity or a post medieval telegraph station, but a windmill is shown in this position on Faden's map of 1797. The mill went out of use in 1833.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 0871 3438 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG03SE |
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| Parish: | EDGEFIELD, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Marked as antiquity on (S1).
Not a barrow? See (S2).
R. R. Clarke (NCM)
Mill House stands on it.
Forestry Commission land.
(S3) suggests telegraph station.
Smock mill shown here on (S4); replaced by postmill 1804; burnt down 1815 postmill 'recently erected' in 1829; last used 1833.
E. Rose (NAU) 2 February 1982.
Monument Types
- SIGNAL STATION (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- WINDMILL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- WINDMILL MOUND (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Edgefield. |
| <S1> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1836. 1st edition OS. |
| <S2> | Publication: Clarke, W.G.. MSS. p.126. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: Cozens-Hardy, B.. 1957. The Holt Road. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXI pp 163-177. pp 175-176. |
| <S4> | Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797. |
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