What is recorded here
In reclaimed wet pasture, one of a group of eleven possible barrows (LI040-026002/007-; 026009/013-), 85m NE of large impressive barrow (LI040-026001-) and immediately E of possible ditch-barrow (LI040-026007-). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 61.03: AP 5/2101) as a small circular cropmark of a possible ring-barrow. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophotograph taken 2005-12. Faint trace of monument visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 8m) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13.
See attached Bruff aerial photograph with site marked No. 8.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 18 May 2021
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 347/18 on 05/01/2003.
Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age (c. 2000–1500 BCE), associated with a broader barrow cemetery. Its location within a group of barrows suggests a significant ritual or funerary landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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