Site Event/Activity record ENT8772 - Excavation at Cuckoo Bush mound

Location

Location
Grid reference SK 53434 28785 (point)
Map sheet SK52NW
District Rushcliffe
Civil Parish Gotham, Rushcliffe

Technique(s)

Organisation

Not recorded.

Date

From: 01 Apr 1847

To: 30 Aug 1837

Map

Description

A barrow about 5 ft high"near Gotam" was opened in April and August 1847. It contained two rock-cut graves each with an inhumation, one contracted with a flint spearhead and bronze pin. The surface at centre of barrow had evidence of a fire with cattle teeth, flints and sawn stag horn.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • --- Digital archive: Historic England. 2021. National Record of Historic Environment.
  • <1> Published document: Bateman T. 1848. Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire and the sepulchural usages of its inhabitants, from the most remote ages to the Reformation.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • Cuckoo Bush Mound, Gotham (Monument)

Record last edited

Jul 20 2026 4:15PM

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