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<< Our Photo Pages >> The Hill of Health - Round Barrow(s) in England in Suffolk

Submitted by willowman1 on Friday, 11 December 2020  Page Views: 973

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: The Hill of Health
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.4 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Suffolk Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Bury St Edmunds  Nearest Village: Culford
Map Ref: TL8365171319
Latitude: 52.309264N  Longitude: 0.692508E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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The Hill of Health submitted by willowman1 : The Hill of Health, Culford. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Round Barrow(s) in Suffolk. The Hill of Health is a round barrow (possibly a Bronze Age bowl barrow), about 22m across and just over 3m in height, crowned with several Scots pines. It's just under 4 miles NNW of Bury St Edmunds, close to a small group of dwellings known as Brockley Corner. The mound was apparently excavated by a local antiquarian in the early years of the 20th century, but no finds were recorded. It sits in the garden of a modern bungalow named 'The Hill' on rising ground beside an old track (now a public footpath) that heads northwards into the Brecks

In the 1930s, two large sarsen boulders were reported to be on its southern side, but there's no sign of them today. T.C. Lethbridge in 1957 related the tradition that the Danes had once skinned a young shepherd on its slopes, but when I first visited it in the 1970s, the house owner had only heard that it was "where the Saxons were buried."

Although on private property, the mound can be seen from the gateway, or through the thin hedge beside the footpath.

Historic England List Entry 1020717
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