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Barrow

Barrow, embanked barrow

What is recorded here

In improved level pasture, defined by the upper edge of an old water course to the N. Identified on an aerial photograph (OS 2436/7). A raised sub-circular area (dims. 7.75m N-S; 6.95m E-W) defined by the remains of a shallow fosse (max. basal Wth 2.75m; max. overall Wth 5.45m; D 0.05m) from ESE-S-WNW. The N sector of the monument, at edge of a dry watercourse, appears to have been levelled during drainage works. The interior has a D-shaped depression (Dth c. 0.015m) off-centre to the S. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
A Neolithic embanked barrow; significant as a rare surviving example of early prehistoric funerary monument in the region.

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