What is recorded here
In gently undulating low-lying wet pasture with a ring-barrow (TS065-024005-) abutting the edge of the barrow at NE with others nearby. Identified on aerial photograph (Ordnance Survey 2430/29). Circular area (diam. 4m) enclosed by a scarped edge (Wth 0.8m; H 0.1m) with a shallow fosse (Wth at base 0.4m) and a barely visible external earthen bank (overall Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.1m). The external bank is incorporated into the external bank of an almost identical ring-barrow (TS065-024005-) NW-NE. The interior is level and clear of overgrowth.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 14 May 2014
A Bronze Age ring-barrow; a type of circular earthen burial mound. Its presence indicates prehistoric funerary activity in the area.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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