What is recorded here
On top of a very slight drier rise in gently undulating wet pasture. Ring-barrow (TS057-038----) is located 16m to the NE and a second ring-barrow (TS057-039----) is located 86m to the N. Circular area (diam. 4m) enclosed by an earthen scarp (Wth 0.95m; H 0.1m) with a shallow fosse (Wth at base 0.6m) and an external low broad earthen bank (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.1m; Wth at top 0.6m; overall Wth 1.95m). Interior is level and clear of overgrowth.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
A ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age, and part of a wider pattern of burial monuments in the landscape; its proximity to another ring-barrow suggests a possible funerary or ritual grouping.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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