Blue plaque № 57805
Hoon, England, United Kingdom
Hoon Mount Is the only obvious survival from the group of barrows (burial mounds) which gave Hoon its name, derived from the word "haugum" meaning "at the barrows". No excavations of this well-preserved barrow are recorded and it is uncertain to which period of history it belongs. It may belong to t
he Late Bronze Age c2400-1500BC, or it may be an example of the much rarer Anglo Saxon or Viking burial mounds of the 7th-9th centuries AD. As with South Derbyshire's other important collections of ba
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