Site Event/Activity record ENT167 - Excavation near Coneygre Farm, Thurgarton by Houldsworth & Wildgoose

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Grid reference SK 70700 47900 (point)
Map sheet SK74NW
District Newark
Civil Parish Thurgarton, Newark

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Peverel Research Group

Date

August 1949

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A trial trench through an earthwork hump (thought to be a Bronze Age Barrow). Work commenced on the 13th August, 1949 and a trench excavated across the tumulus on a magnetic bearing of 330 degrees. … The trench was sunk to a depth of 6ft 10in in the centre of the mound and 4ft at the edge. (1)

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Published document: Peverel Archaeology Group. 1949. Ann Rept 1. pp 11-12.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • Excavated mound, near Coneygre Farm, Thurgarton (Element)

Record last edited

Nov 11 2015 10:25AM

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