What is recorded here
Towards the E end of the broad WNW-ESE Carnfree ridge, c. 60m W of bowl barrow (RO028-070----). Circular grass-covered mound (diam. of top 5m; H 0.1m) defined by a shallow fosse (Wth c. 3.5m; ext. D 0.1-0.3m; max. ext. diam. 12.5m N-S). Ditch barrow (RO028-072001-) is c. 80m to the SE. (Waddell 1988, 17)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
A Neolithic ditch barrow; its low profile and associated fosse suggest a simple funerary or territorial monument, typical of early ceremonial landscape features in Atlantic Europe.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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