More information : A ring, perhaps a Bronze Age barrow, on Air Photographs in a field at Theale. (1) This crop mark at SU 66077055 was seen by Mr. Wymer from the air. Colour slides, in his possession, do not permit its certain identification. (2) There is no surface indication of this crop mark. (3) 6570 6670 SU 67 NE Area centred SU 660704 BURGHFIELD Single circle. Intersecting linear features and isolated curvilinear features. Pit. Isolated linear feature and pit to S. Whole area covered by small 'spots'. ST JOSEPH 57 VP 66-67 NMR 70 SU 6670/5/76-81. Trial excavations in 1974 showed the linear features to be field boundary ditches of recent date. The pit at 671702 was an infilled medieval gravel pit or pond. The 'spots' are caused by natural clay patches lying on the gravel surface. Site now totally destroyed by gravel quarrying. (4) Additional bibliography (5)
The features cropmarks referred referred to by the previous authorites may be those which have now been mapped from aerial photographs. A possible Bronze Age round barrow and possible ditched boundaries of unknown date are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The round barrow is visible as a ring ditch with a diameter of 14m and is centred at SU 6611 7039. The boundaries appear to form parts of large rectilinear enclosures and may be part of a system which continues to the east (described in SU 67 SE 70). They extend over an area measuring 600m by 550m which is centred at SU 6600 7035. It is unclear if the excavated features, referred to by authority 4, relate in any way to the cropmark features. This area has been quarried for gravel and so all features have been destroyed. (Morph No.s 321.8-15)
This description is based on data from a MORPH2 database. (6)
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