What is recorded here
In pasture, located in a lowlying hollow, on the S border of a tract of wet, marshy ground. Low, subcircular earthen mound (10.5m N-S; 9.3m E-W; H 1m at W, 1.15m at E). The top of the mound (6.6m N-S; 5.4m E-W) is level. No evidence of an encircling bank or fosse.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
A Neolithic mound barrow; significant as a rare surviving example of early funerary earthworks in the region.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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