What is recorded here
On low-lying, wet pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses. Within a large complex of ring-barrows. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a small, circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 15608: AP 4/3665). Monument is visible as a circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 7m) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 25/03/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 15608.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 9 September 2020
Ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Part of a significant burial complex, indicating communal or elite interment practices in a landscape now largely modified by agricultural activity.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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