What is recorded here
On flat pasture with good views in all directions. A well-preserved ring-barrow (overall diam. c. 23m) consists of a circular flat-topped mound (top diam. 5m; base diam. 8.2m; H 0.4m) enclosed by an inner fosse (base Wth 2m; top Wth 5m; ext. D 1m) and outer bank (base Wth 5m; top Wth 1.4m; ext. H 0.65m) which is intersected at the E on a N-S axis by a modern field boundary. The ring-barrow is heavily overgrown and covered in thorn bushes but otherwise in good condition.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
A Neolithic ring-barrow, dating to approximately 2500–2000 BCE, characterized by a circular flat-topped mound and an inner fosse. Such monuments are significant as early funerary and ceremonial structures, reflecting social organization and ritual practices of Neolithic communities in the region.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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