What is recorded here
In low-lying wet terrain criss-crossed with rivulets, in rough pasture. A circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 10m), defined by a fosse, visible on satellite imagery (Google Earth satellite imagery, 18 November 2018)), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. There is an enclosure (TS059-169----) c. 195m to the SSE and another (TS059-144----) c. 255m to the SE.
See attached:
TS059-202----_01 Google Earth satellite image (imagery date, 18 November 2018)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 8 January 2022
A Neolithic ditch barrow; its presence indicates early ceremonial or funerary activity in a wetland landscape, reflecting the use of such environments for ritual purposes during the Neolithic period.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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