NHER 7990 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Site of Bronze Age barrows

Tumuli.
Several tumuli on the common about 16.7m (55 feet) OD, seen not long before 1831 and reported in (S1). One known as Court Hill was excavated in 1855, and nothing was found. However, in the British Museum is a looped and socketed, waisted (unusual type) axe said to have been found in a barrow on Frettenham Common.
Hundred Courts said to have been held here.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

March 1935. Visit.
Very overgrown with gorse and furze, gravel excavations nearby. Not identifiable with certainly.
R.R. Clarke (NCM), 28 March 1935.

(S2) says sheriff's courts were held here.
E. Rose (NAU).

May 1970.
(S2) describes several barrows.
NCM contains axe from this site.
Destroyed before 1970.
T.H. MckClough (NCM) and E.B. Green (NCM).

No sign in area dug for gravel.
A. Lawson (NAU), June 1975.

Axe. Loop placed to one side. Hollowed oval projections on each side of blade, vestigial flanges. 96mm long.
See (S3), (S4), (S5) and (S6).
Given by [1].
E. Rose (NAU).

DESCHEDULED IN 1972.

(S7) in 1981 say '11.0m in diameter, 0.7m in height. Dug into in the centre and northwest segment destroyed'.
But the mound was totally destroyed before 1970. To what does this refer?
Information from (S7).
R.J. Rickett (NAU), 28 June 1990.

However in November 1983 J. Wymer (NAU) reported a mound 10m from road in good order about 30m diameter and 1m high, but only seen from road.
Did the barrow survive or is this a spoil heap?
E. Rose (NAU), 15 April 1984.