What is recorded here
In pasture, on ESE-facing slope. Oval grass-covered mound (H 0.65m; 17.3m N-S; 20.7m E-W) with external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.8m); the barrow has been truncated on its SE side by a field boundary.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
A ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age, associated with single inhumation burials and common in the British and Irish Isles. Its construction reflects early mound-building traditions and the significance of individual burial in prehistoric funerary practices.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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