What is recorded here
Visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (CUCAP AHN 2,3; AJO 17,20; AHM 103), and situated on a SE-facing slope of a NE-SW ridge within a golf-course. Circular, round-topped and grass-covered earthen mound (diam. 12m; H 1.1-1.3m). Ring-barrow (RO006-118005-) is c. 80m to the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
A round-topped earthen mound barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age; its location within a golf course complicates further investigation, but such mounds are often associated with burial or ritual practices of the period.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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