What is recorded here
On low-lying wet pasture, shaped by flood waters and cut by land drains and watercourses. Ring-barrow (LI023-180002-) lies 45m to S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 243: AP 4/3689). Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 243.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 30 August 2020
A Neolithic ring-barrow; significant as a rare and poorly recorded burial monument type in the region.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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