Archaeology Notes

Event ID 718496

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT57SW 9 5348 7469.

(NT 5348 7469) Burial Ground (NR)

OS 6" map (1969)

This burial ground lies within an oblong wooded enclosure; at its E end are two greatly weathered table stones, with illegible inscriptions, and on the S is a 17th century headstone.

The Ordnance Survey Name Book [ONB] states that this burial ground was associated with the nearby St Mary's Nunnery (NT57SW 10).

RCAHMS 1924, visited 1913; Name Book 1853

The enclosing wall of the burial ground has been demolished, leaving a long, mutilated, low mound rising above the surrounding ground level. The burial ground is wooded; the stones mentioned above are still in evidence.

Visited by OS (BS) 7 Julu 1975.