What is recorded here
On the crest of an E-W drumlin ridge. Circular grass-covered but poached mound (diam. 24m; H 4-4.2m) with a flat summit (diam. 5m) separated by a berm (Wth 2.7-4m) from a fosse (Wth of top 3.3-3.6m; int. D 0.5-0.9m; ext. D 0.1-0.3m). There are slight traces of a bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.1m) inside the fosse at E, and the fosse is surrounded by a hawthorn hedge (max. ext. diam. 37m N-S).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
A Neolithic passage tomb; significant as a well-preserved example of a drumlin-based burial monument, illustrating early agricultural settlement patterns in the region.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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