A Hallstatt Settlement at West Harling, Norfolk

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At the November Meeting last year I gave an account of some Bronze Age cooking places situated along the River Thet above East Harling. (Proc. P.S.E.A., Vol. VI, pt. IV, p.365). On continuing the exploration lower down the river, I came upon the peculiar mound known as Micklemoor Hill, West Harling. This is an isolated mound of glacial gravel in the middle of a long stretch of alluvium on the south side of the river, and is one mile S.W. by W. of East Harling Church. It is about 300 yards long, 150 yards wide and 25 ft. high, and is 100 yards from the river bank with its longer axis parallel to the river at this point, i.e., east and west. The Hill is grass-covered and given over, to rabbits, with the exception of the S.-E. corner, which, besides having been dug for sand and gravel, has on the top an eighteenth century ice-house surrounded by a few pines and firs.