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Barrow

Barrow, ring-barrow

What is recorded here

On the SE-facing hill slopes of a mountain, in rough moorland. A low, D-shaped platform (int. dims. 18.7m N-S; 15m E-W) enclosed by a slight fosse (Wth 1m) and external bank (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4m). Denuded at SW by 19th-century cultivation ridges. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 January 2018
A Neolithic ring-barrow; significant as a rare surviving example of early funerary monument construction in the region.

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What survives
Recorded monument

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