What is recorded here
In reclaimed pasture, one of a group of eleven possible barrows (LI040-026002/012-) and 140m E of large impressive barrow (LI040-026001-). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (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 visible on Google Earth orthoimage 14/09/2019.
See attached Bruff aerial photograph (AP 5/2101) with site marked No. 13.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 18 May 2021
Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age (c. 2000–1500 BCE). It is part of a possible barrow group, suggesting a significant prehistoric funerary or ritual landscape in the area.
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- What survives
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