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SUDDERN

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Neolithic long barrow, much reduced and distorted by ploughing. Aerial photography reveals that the barrow was ovoid in plan.

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At SU 26623836 in a ploughed field, is a mound of
chalk, measuring 33.0m. east to west and 26.0 north to south
and having a maximum height of 0.7m. A ditch is visible as a
slight depression, containing loam, on the N and S sides. At
the W end an LBA ranch-boundary - SU 23 NE - appears to have
skirted the mound.

Although this could be a large bowl barrow elongated by
ploughing it is more probably a short long-barrow of which
there is another example within a mile to the west SU 23 NE of
similar proportions.

The mound is placed on a slight southern slope and is
orientated 96 Mag. (1)

Surveyed to 1:2500. (2)

No change. (3)

SU 26623834. Suddern long barrow has been much reduced and
distorted by cultivation and is still under plough. It is
oriented ESE-WNW and is about 35.0m. long and 0.6m. high. The
side-ditches show very clearly as parch-marks on an air
photograph (a) taken when the site was under grass during the
1976 drought. (4)

(SU 26623834) Long Barrow (NR). (5)

Further reduced by ploughing. The ditches are no longer visible.

1:2500 Survey amended. (6)

Scheduled No 12101. (7)

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( 1) Field Investigators Comments

F1 WW 24-JAN-56

( 2) Field Investigators Comments

F2 ASP 20-APR-65

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F3 CFW 06-MAR-68

( 4a) Aerial photograph

AP (NMR SU 2638/6)

( 4) General reference

RCHM Long Barrows in Hants & IOW 1979 40-41 plan photos

( 5) General reference

OS 1:10000 1976

( 6) Field Investigators Comments

F4 JGB 24-SEP-82

( 7) General reference

English Heritage Schedule of Ancient Monuments amendment 30-Oct 1990

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