Record Details
| NHER Number: | 13670 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible site of Early Saxon cemetery |
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Summary
This is one of three possible sites for an Early Saxon cemetery in Wickmere (see NHER 6658 and 6659 for the other potential sites). Documents state that a number of urns were found at this location.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Map Sheet: | TG13SW |
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| Parish: | WICKMERE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Possible alternative site for Early Saxon cemetery (see NHER 6658).
(S1) account describes site as in a small sand pit on crest of hill, which this is; and old guidebook to hall speaks of the
'barrow' (really the hill) in which the urns were found 'peeping over the roof of the hall' as one approaches from the west - which this hill did before trees grew up.
Information from member of the public [1].
Only difficulty is that this field is not 'northeast of Hall Farm' as stated in original description.
However, there is also the reference to finds being made 'in the adjacent field', and if this was the cemetery site it would make the reported finding of the urn to the southwest (NHER 6659) far more reasonable.
No finds in pit or rabbit scrapes.
E. Rose (NAU) 11 May 1978.
Part of large scatter NHER 28027.
Monument Types
- CEMETERY (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Tomes, C. S. 1915. An Ancient Interment at Mannington. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol II Pt I (for 1914-15) pp 152-153. |
Related records
| 6658 | Related to: Possible site of Early Saxon cemetery (Monument) |
| 6659 | Related to: Possible site of Early Saxon cemetery (Monument) |
| 28027 | Related to: Prehistoric flints and multi-period pottery sherds (Find Spot) |
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