What is recorded here
In wet pasture adjacent to and forming part of a group of barrows. It is conjoined with a ditch-barrow (LI024-066----) to the SW. Enclosure (LI024-291----) located 50m to WSW. The ditch-barrow is not depicted on historic OSi maps nor is it visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 or on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 218; AP 4/3666) as a circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 28.5m N-S; 27.5m E-W). It is visible on ASI aerial photographic survey 05/01/2003 (ASIAP (353) 20). The enclosure is visible on the Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/03/2017, it is not clear on the Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 218, ASI survey image showing the enclosure view SW, and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 15 September 2020
Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its association with a group of barrows suggests it is part of a significant funerary and ritual landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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