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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Troston MountCountry: England County: Suffolk Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Thetford Nearest Village: Honington
Map Ref: TL896741 Landranger Map Number: 144
Latitude: 52.332217N Longitude: 0.781229E
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4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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3 | Ordinary |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Round Barrow in Suffolk
Troston Mount is a barrow later used as a mutlow (moot hill) meeting place for the Bradmere Hundred. Prehistoric mounds seemed to be of special significance to the Anglo-Saxons who used them from the 7th century until the 13th. They also seem to have been used for law disputes and executions as Troston mount is shown as a gibbet on a tithe map of 1842.
A very large Bronze Age barrow with ditch and bank. Diameter is 34m and height 2.5m. Steep sided and tree covered, it is much burrowed into by rabbits. Scheduled but not yet excavated. Visible from the road.
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