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Barrow

Barrow, ring-barrow

What is recorded here

In good, level pasture. Monument identified during ASI fieldwork. A circular area (diam. 6.5m) defined by a fosse (Wth 2.35m; D 0.1m) and a poorly preserved outer bank (Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.15m). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 October 2013
A Neolithic ring-barrow; dated to the 4th to 3rd millennia BCE. It represents an early form of burial monument, significant for understanding prehistoric funerary practices and landscape use in the British Isles.

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Recorded monument

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