Of disputed antiquity, though described in the Norton Park review report 2019 thus:
“Within the Park itself, there is a possible Bronze Age Barrow (ref: 00872/01 – MSY4312) listed as an ‘unditched earth mound 1.4m high’. This was identified by W.A. Timperley in an archaeological report ‘Discoveries at Oakes Park, Norton’ published in the Derbyshire Archaeological Journal vol. 71, in 1951, where he states, “Mounds. Several have been found some certainly barrows, long and round, others may be. One in Graves Park is probably a Bronze Age round barrow. Another is being excavated and has been shown to cover artificially worked rock in which there are cysts.”
“It is also speculated that the ‘barrow’ in Graves Park was constructed as a ‘tree mound’, a later feature related to the eighteenth-century landscaping of Norton Park or is a former round pillow mound (rabbit warren) associated with the early medieval deer park. It could be any of these with an earlier burial mound being later re-used several times.”
“In the later twentieth century, the mound was used as a platform for a sculpture created as part of a trail through the park. During the current landscape surveys, several long, linear boundary features (now heavily degraded) have been discerned. The precise date for these is still to be determined but the major one which runs close by the possible barrow also overlain by a confirmed medieval wood and in doing so descends a very steep slope. This feature is suggested by archaeologists to be prehistoric and possibly either Bronze Age or late Neolithic in origin”.
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