What is recorded here
In reclaimed pasture immediately N of a field drain running NE-SW. Bowl barrow (LI040-036----) lies 65m to SW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified from McCloud aerial image (27). Described by Sarah Cross and Eoin Grogan in 1994 (License No. 94E0172) as a ‘previously unrecorded ring-ditch was also noted 20m to the north. It measures 7m north-south and 6m east-west. The mound is 3.6m in diameter and c. 0.3m high’. Faint trace of cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.
See attached McCloud aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 2 July 2021
Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its identification from aerial imagery highlights the value of such methods in uncovering previously unrecorded burial monuments.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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