At Court Hill, a central spot on high land, is a well defined tumulus called the Cuckoo Bush, surrounded by a shallow ditch. (Suggests this was the barrow at "Gotham" opened by T Bateman in April and August 1847, but that was in Derbys). (1)

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. (5)

Mound, possibly a barrow. 20m diameter, 1.5m high, ditched. (2)
The only probable tumulus known to this investigator adjacent to Gotham, to which the above report might apply, is "Cuckoo Bush", which is very overgrown so that any surface indication of an early excavation cannot now be seen. (3)

Labelled "Tumulus" on 1973 OS map (4)

Historic England, 2021, National Record of Historic Environment (Digital archive). SNT5271.

<1> VCH, 1906, Notts, p 315 (Published document). SNT1383.

<2> Posnansky, 1956, Some considerations on the Pleistocene Chronology and Prehistory of Part of the East Midlands - Phd Thesis, p 356 (Unpublished document). SNT1153.

<3> Colquhoun FD, 1975, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT583.

<4> OS, 1973, 1:10000 1973 (Map). SNT995.

<5> Bateman T, 1848, Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire and the sepulchural usages of its inhabitants, from the most remote ages to the Reformation (Published document). SNT460.