What is recorded here
Small earthen mound (diam. 11m; H. 2m). Aerial photograph (CUCAP BGN 27) shows cropmarks of drains, fields and possible trackways in an area to the S and W of the monument. Situated on a low ridge. Described in 1955 as having traces of a fosse (Danaher 1955, no. 302).
Date of upload: 8 September 2016
A Neolithic passage tomb; 4th to 3rd millennium BCE. Its location on a low ridge and associated cropmarks suggest it was part of a wider ritual or agricultural landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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