More information : (SU 82865865) Tumulus (OE) (1)
Bell-barrow with well marked berm, mound and ditch, flat top
on which a windmill might have stood. (2)
A good example of a bell barrow : the mound is 64 feet in
diameter and 6 feet high; the berm is 8 feet wide and the ditch
20 feet wide and a foot deep. The mound has a flattish and rather
hummocky top and the ditch is filled with reeds and is
waterlogged. Although narrow the berm is well-defined. (3)
'A Celtic tumulus, on the Hartford Bridge Flats, which was
opened in 1770 by Mr. Norris, of Hawley House, who found in it
a coarse earthenware urn, which he transferred to his
collection of antiquities at Hughenden'. (Compares urn with
that on SU 86 SW 13). Classified as MBA by Grinsell. (4)
A well preserved bell-barrow, with the measurements given by
L.V.Grinsell. On the S., the ditch has been mutilated by a track
and trenches have been dug in the centre of the mound. A War
Department Antiquity Star is placed on the north side.
The barrow is overgrown by small trees and stands in heathland. (5)
No change. Published 1/2500 survey revised. (6)
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