Monument Number 1201162 |
| Hob Uid: 1201162 | |
Location :
Oxfordshire
South Oxfordshire
Crowmarsh, South Stoke
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| Grid Ref : SU6099085580 |
| Summary : Probable Bronze Age barrow cemetery (twenty-two round barrows) seen as cropmarks. Many of the barrows have multiple ditches or internal pits, or both. |
More information : A Bronze Age barrow cemetery mapped from good quality air
photographs. The cemetery occupies an area 350m-750m E of the River
Thames (SU 6109 8516 - SU 6078 8553 - SU 6107 8598 - SU 6118 8566 -
SU 6109 8516).
The cemetery comprises twenty-two round barrows with diameters
12m-45m; many have multiple ditches or central pits or both.
Barrows defined by a single ditch:
SU 6109 8516 (Morph No. TG.107.14.1) diameter 22m.
SU 6096 8555 (Morph No. TG.107.14.2) diameter 22m.
SU 6091 8553 (Morph No. TG.107.14.3) diameter 22m.
SU 6116 8552 (Morph No. TG.107.14.4) diameter 40m.
SU 6110 8553 (Morph No. TG.107.14.5) diameter 22m.
SU 6095 8560 (Morph No. TG.107.14.7) incomplete: an arc of ditch 18m
long.
SU 6100 8536 (Morph No. TG.107.14.8) incomplete: an arc of ditch 20m
long.
SU 6112 8597 (Morph No. TG.107.14.11) diameter 45m.
SU 6114 8572 (Morph No. TG.107.14.13) diameter 32m.
SU 6105 8586 (Morph No. TG.107.14.14) diameter 20m.
Barrows with multiple ditches and/or internal features:
SU 6078 8553 (Morph No. TG.107.14.6) diameter 22m; internal oblong
pit.
SU 6103 8537 (Morph No. TG.107.14.9) diameter 40m; many internal
pits.
SU 6096 8542 (Morph No. TG.107.14.10) external diameter 50m; 2
ditches; many internal pits.
SU 6107 8598 (Morph No. TG.107.14.12) external diameter 30m; 2
ditches.
SU 6118 8566 (Morph No. TG.107.14.15) external diameter 38m; 3
ditches.
SU 6105 8558 (Morph No. TG.107.14.16) diameter 32m; quarrying inside
N edge.
SU 6109 8582 (Morph No. TG.107.14.17) external diameter 30m; 2
ditches; central pit.
SU 6101 8583 (Morph No. TG.107.14.18) external diameter 38m; 3
ditches; central pit.
SU 6098 8579 (Morph No. TG.107.14.19) external diameter 28m; 2
ditches (segmented inner ditch); central pit.
SU 6093 8578 (Morph No. TG.107.14.20) external diameter 25m; 2
ditches, with 2 entrances; central pit.
SU 6112 8566 (Morph No. TG.107.14.21) external diameter 20m; 2
ditches (segmented inner ditch); central pit.
SU 6106 8566 (Morph No. TG.107.14.22) external diameter 30m; 2
ditches; large central pit.
All of the barrows lie E of the River Thames in an area of flat land
containing many other Prehistoric ritual or funerary monuments
including smaller round barrows, a Neolithic bank barrow and at
least four mortuary enclosures.
These features were originally described in SU 68 NW 40.
This description is based on data from the RCHME MORPH2 database.
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