What is recorded here

Rockfield holds one low stony mound beside a children’s burial ground, not the several mounds once suspected from above. It measures six metres across, rises less than a metre, and wears sod like an old shirt. It may mark a grave or simply collect stones cleared from a field. Either way, it sits at the edge of a place where young lives were laid to earth, waiting for someone to remember what it was meant to hold.

Adjacent to a children’s burial ground (MA092-064001-). Included in the SMR (1991) and RMP (1997) as ‘mounds’ on the basis of a number of small subcircular features visible in an aerial photograph (OS 2 4342-3; Roll 216, Pr. 21; SMR file). When the area was inspected in 1998, a single low, sod-covered irregular-shaped stony mound (6m WNW–ESE; 4m NNE–SSW; H 0.4-0.8m) was noted at the NNE edge of the children’s burial ground. It may be a grave but more closely resembles a field clearance heap. No other mounds are evident. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 May 2022

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