What is recorded here

One oval hazel mound still stands inside a broken whitethorn circle, marking the edge of a field system and a nearby rath. The barrow may have been a burial place, a boundary marker, or the highest point of a small defended home. Someone shaped that land repeatedly, cut through it, and left the result visible enough to argue about centuries later.

In a slight hollow on an undulating landscape. This is a round-topped, oval, hazel-covered mound (dims of top 10.9m E-W; 10.5m N-S; dims of base 45m N-S; 33m E-W; H 3.6m at E to 4.8m at S) separated by a berm (Wth 4-5m) from a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 6.4-8.8m; Wth of base 2-3m; int. D 1.7-2.4m; ext. D 0.5-1m). There is a slight earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.2-0.4m) planted with whitethorn on the inner edge of the fosse, which survives S-NW and NE-SE (max. ext. dims 71m N-S; 61.3m E-W). The perimeter is quarried at SSW (diam. c. 9m), N-NE and at ENE. An oval overgrown subcircular mound (RO032-009004-) (dims of base c. 25m ENE-WSW; 19.8m NNW-SSE; H 3m) extends out from the inner bank at ENE, and may be spoil from the quarries, although it has been interpreted as a bailey, and the barrow as a motte (Knox 1911a, 307-310; Graham 1988b, 26). Field system (RO032-009002-) is immediately to the NW, and rath (R032-008001-) is c. 80m to the NE. (Doran 2005, 377) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Embanked enclosure, likely dating to the Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. Its significance lies in its rare preservation of a complex earthwork structure, indicating possible ceremonial or defensive use in a rural landscape.

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