What is recorded here
On low-lying, improved wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses. A watercourse lies 65m to N. Ring-barrows (LI023-222001-/003-) conjoin to NW and NE, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a small circular-shaped earthwork by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 15202: AP 4/3662). Monument is visible as a faint oval-shaped cropmark (14m NE-SW; 11m NW-SE) on OSi orthoimage 2005-2012, although is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 15202.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 8 September 2020
A Neolithic ring-barrow, likely dating to the 4th to 3rd millennium BCE, associated with early burial practices and communal memory in the landscape. Its location and alignment with other ring-barrow groups suggest ritual or social significance in the prehistoric period.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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