More information : In 1849, Carrington opened Mayfield Low, a flat barrow 18 yds in diameter, in which a stone cist, containing an urn had been found some years previously. The only finds were a few pieces of an urn and some burnt bones. (1) SK 15574606. Bowl barrow, 120m NE of Lowes Farm, Mayfield. It measures about 20.0m in diameter, but the northernmost 5-6m of the mound has been cut away by medieval cultivation, and is 0.6m high. No visible ditch. Under pasture, on the brow of a north-eastern escarpment. Probably the barrow excavated by Carrington. (2) No change: 1:2500 survey of 1957 still correct. (3) (SK 155746060 Tumulus(NR) (4)
A probable Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar centred at SK 1557 4606. The barrow could not be discerned from the available photography but appears to be visible on 2 metre resolution lidar data. The barrow is located on a field boundary, which noticeably curves around the barrow. The earthwork was mapped as part of the Staffordshire National Mapping Programme project. The latest condition of the barrow could not be discerned from the latest 2010 vertical photography. (5)
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