What is recorded here
In reclaimed wet pasture, one of a group of eleven possible barrows (LI040-026002-/005; 026007-/013) and 130m NW of large impressive barrow (LI040-026001-). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 61.01; AP 5/2101) as a small circular cropmark of a possible barrow. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophotograph taken 2005-12. Faint cropmark of possible ditch-barrow with second barrow (LI040-026012-) immediately to SSE visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Bruff aerial photograph (AP 5/2101) with site marked No. 6.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 18 May 2021
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 347/18 on 05/01/2003.
Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age (c. 2000–1500 BCE). It is part of a small barrow group, suggesting a local funerary or ceremonial landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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