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Barrow

Barrow, ring-barrow
Barrow
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What is recorded here

In pasture, at the base of a NE-facing slope. A circular area (10.4m N-S; 10.8m E-W) enclosed by a fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 2.6m base) with an external earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.15m). Both fosse and bank are truncated WNW->N by a field boundary. The outer edge of the bank clipped by a stream N->ENE. The level interior is under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. This type of monument is significant as it reflects early funerary and ritual practices associated with burial mounds in Britain and Ireland.

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Recorded monument

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