| Suffolk HER Number (Pref. Ref.): | FNG 003 |
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| Unique number (MonUID): | MSF5437 |
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| Type of Record: | Monument |
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| Parish: | GREAT FINBOROUGH, MID SUFFOLK, SUFFOLK |
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| NGR: | TM 0127 5821 |
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Summary
Mound - 'Devil's Hill'.
Monument Types
- MOUND (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds: None recorded
Protected Status: None recorded
Description
Circa: Hodskinson's 1783 Map
Mound - 'Devil's Hill'.
The mound lies on a hill called Devil's Hill and is apparently a folly: 'There is a hill called Devil's Hill and there is a mound erected somewhere about 1800 by my great uncle, Roger Pettiward - for private reasons - partly to dispose of some superfluous soil, and partly to conceal a sewage vent pipe.' (S1).
1700s: Diaries from the Petiward family have a passage regarding the mound being mud dredged from the river.
1976: Conical barrow with flat top, W of Finborough Hall, in park land, now a golf course. Has a brick monument on summit, a simple column, circa 10-12 feet high. Local knew mound as Devil's Hill as a boy. Mound height circa 3.35m, diameter base circa 32m and top circa 5.7m, ditch width circa 4.2m, ditch depth 0.66m (silted). Mound is covered with trees. Small trench cut into S side (S2).
Sources
| [S1] | (No record type): Pettiward Charles, Finborough Hall, E Anglian Misc, 1931, 52, no 8,470. (SSF15961) |
| [R1] | (No record type): Skeat W, The Place-names of Suffolk, 1913, 6. (SSF21272) |
| [M1] | (No record type): Barrow file:. (SSF35223) |
| [R2] | (No record type): Lawson, A.J., Martin, E. & Priddy, D.. 1981. The Barrows of East Anglia. Lawson A J, Martin E A& Priddy D, The Barrows of East Anglia, E Anglian Archaeol, 12, 1981, 10,1. (SSF10462) |
| [S2] | (No record type): Martin, E.A.. Martin E M, SAU, visit 1/3/76. (SSF10900) |
| [R3] | Index: OS. OS Card. OS, card TM05NW18. (SSF50032) |
| [S3] | Bibliographic reference: 1911. VCH Suffolk 1. 626. (SSF54455) |
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