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Barrow

Barrow, embanked barrow

What is recorded here

On a knoll in a low-lying level landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 6m N-S; 5.2m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.3-5m) which is reduced to a scarp at N. There is an entrance (Wth 2.7m) at SE (max. ext. diam. 11.3m N-S; 10.8m E-W). Enclosure (RO021-063005-) is c. 30m to the SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
A Neolithic embanked barrow; likely dates to the Early to Middle Neolithic period (c. 4000–3000 BCE). Such barrows are significant as early funerary monuments and indicators of settled agricultural communities in the region.

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