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Barrow

Barrow, ring-barrow
Barrow
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In wet pasture, 10m N of a land drain and 30m E of a tributary of the Camoge River. A ring-barrow (LI023-239----) lies 115m to NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Described by Ó Ríordáin and MacDermott (1949, 127) as a barrow on an irregularly-shaped platform. Visible as a small circular-shaped earthwork on the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff AP 4/3642). Monument is visible as a faint circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 8m) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 and location map showing barrow marked site X after Ó Ríordáin and MacDermott 1949. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 28 August 2020
A ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age, and part of a wider pattern of funerary monuments in the region; its location near other barrows suggests a ritual landscape of significance.

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