NHER 5239 (Monument record) - Site of a skeleton drainage mill

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Summary

The locality is named after a drainage mill that once stood here. Disappointingly, the name does not mean that any bones were found; skeleton was the Norfolk name for a trestle mill.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG31NE
Civil Parish LUDHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

August 1975. Visited.
Locality named as 'Skeleton Mill by [1].
No mill here but see nearby river reaches named after vanished mills. Origin of name?
E. Rose (NAU), 23 August 1975.

However, sketch map of Ludham in (S1) marks 'Skeleton Mill' against How Hill Trestle.
This may be a mistake, but may also indicate that the term 'skeleton mill' was a Norfolk term for trestle mills, rather than
that a skeleton was found here.
E. Rose (NAU), 16 September 1981.

[2] confirms that 'Skeleton Mill' is a Norfolk name for a trestle mill.
E. Rose (NAU).

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Article in Serial: 1981. [unknown]. Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society Journal. Vol III, No 1.
  • HUMAN REMAINS (Undated)

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Record last edited

Jul 23 2025 8:21AM

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