What is recorded here
Surrounded on three sides by streams. Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly lozenge-shaped area (dims. c. 48m NNE-SSW; c. 55m NW-SE) with five concentric circles within the interior, the inner circle being N of centre of the lozenge and the outer three circles are only represented by arcs, as their radius would have extended beyond the boundary of the lozenge-shaped enclosure. The circles indicated diameters of c. 12m, 25m, 40m and the arc of the outer circles, if complete, would give diameters of c. 50m, 70m and 90m. There is no large house nearby and it is not part of a demesne. On the 1st ed. two NE-SE flowing streams are indicated, one c. 40m W of the monument and the other c. 60m to the E, with a third stream flowing NW-SE c. 10m to the S. The W stream forks to flow into the SE side of the lozenge-shaped enclosure and another stream flows along the SW side, appearing to form a waterlogged fosse. On satellite imagery it is evident that the monument has been levelled, with only the SW edge being retained as part of a field boundary. Given its association with water and its suggested morphology on the 1st ed. map, this may be some form of barrow, which was partially enclosed within the lozenge-shaped area at a later stage. Though even this latter feature was regarded as being of some antiquity by the OS surveyors as it is hachured.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 25 June 2020
A Neolithic passage tomb with a lozenge-shaped mound and concentric circles, dating to approximately 2500–2000 BCE. Its significance lies in its complex internal structure and early mapping, indicating its importance as a ceremonial or burial site in the prehistoric landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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