What is recorded here
On low-lying scrubby, wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses. Ring-barrows (LI023-255/-181----) lie 135m and 145m to NW, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a small penannular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey (Bruff 247: AP 4/3689). Monument is visible as a light green roughly oval-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 247.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 2 September 2020
A Neolithic ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early to Middle Neolithic period (c. 4000–3000 BCE). Its penannular shape and association with other nearby ring-barrow monuments suggest a funerary or ceremonial function within a broader prehistoric landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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