What is recorded here
In level wet pasture. Bowl-barrow (TS057-011----) located c. 40m to the SW. Circular area (diam. 4.1m) enclosed by an earthen scarp (Wth 0.4-0.65m; H 0.1m) with a shallow fosse (Wth at base 0.4-0.7m) and an external low broad earthen bank (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.05-0.1m; Wth at top 1-1.3m; overall Wth 1.8-2.4m). From SE-SW the external bank is almost entirely absent where a silted up E-W orientated modern drain abuts the S side of the ring-barrow. Interior is level and clear of overgrowth.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Circular earthen ring-barrow, likely Bronze Age (c. 2500–800 BCE), characterized by a scarp and fosse. Such monuments were often used for burial and ritual purposes, reflecting early communal land use and social structures.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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