More information : [NB this was previously barrow 'C' within record TQ 50 SW 82. Please see that record for earlier references]
A probable Bronze Age round barrow located within field system TQ 50 SW 78. It seems to have first been noted on some aerial photographs taken for the Ordnance Survey in 1925. Ordnance Survey field investigation in 1972 recorded a mound circa 9 metres in diameter and around 0.7m high, with a central hollow, suggestive of an early, unrecorded excavation. The 1972 report noted that the barrow "occurs on the end of a positive lynchet". This is the only NW-SE aligned lynchet visible on aerial photographs that does not traverse the width of the hill. The relationship between mound and lynchet is clearly visible on the 1925 APs mentioned above. Less clear is what appears to be a slighter bank or lynchet running at rigth angles to this one, the barrow therefore perched on the junction between the two (the existence of this second lynchet would need confirmation via ground inspection - the angle of sunlight in the 1925 verticals is ideal for picking out low NW-SE orientated earthworks, but the lynchets at right angles to these are less easy to pick out). (1) |