More information : [SK 2596 5439] Iber Low [O.E.] (1)
A very large barrow called Abbot's Low, circumference 196 ft., is
on rising ground near Hopton and about a mile south of the valley
where Mr. Gell is making a road from Hopton Moor to Ible. [the
Griffe Grange Valley SK 2556] In preparing this for a plantation
in 1793 an urn was discovered full of burnt bones and ashes and
covered with a stone inscribed, Gell Prae Colll LV Brit. (2)
The letters Gell on the inscribed stone found at Abbot's Low give
rise to some suspicion either of forgery or of misreading.
The fragment has, of course, no connexion with the burial. It
was plainly torn from some earlier (sic) monument. (3)
Secondary (?) RB cinerary urn. (4)
"Ivet Low, cf. Ivett Iowe pecice 1638(a). Evetlowe peece 1643.(a) (5)
Ivet Low [O.E.] (6) (7) (8)
Ibet Low [O.E.] (9)
Both Ivet and Ibet seem to be in current usage. Surveyed at
1/2500. (10)
Additional reference. (11)
Ivet Low bowl barrow, also known as Ibet or Abbot's Low, is a sub-
circular cairn; it is a mound 22m by 20m and survives to a height of
c1m. The cremation is presumably Bronze Age with possible Roman
reuse. (12)
Bronze Age cairn is visible as earthworks on air photographs, centred at SK 2596 5439. It appears to be still extant on Google.Earth.com 30-APR-2007 photography (accessed on 7th December 2009).
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