What is recorded here
In reclaimed wet pasture, in the NE of a group of eleven possible barrows (LI040-026002/009-; 026011/013-, 180m NE of large impressive barrow (LI040-026001-). Potential site identified as a circular cropmark defined by a ditch during examination of aerial photographs by the Discovery Programme. Faint cropmark (diam. c. 6m) visible on Digital Globe orthophotograph taken 2011-13. Monument visible as a circular cropmark on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Bruff aerial photograph with site marked No. 10 and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 18 May 2021
Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. It is part of a possible barrow group, indicating a significant prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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