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Monument Number 342261
Hob Uid: 342261
Location : Leicestershire Harborough North Kilworth
Grid Ref : SP6240084490
Summary : Two ploughed down bowl barrows.
More information : Within 500 yards of the 1865 discoveries [beaker etc., see SP 68 SW 3] is an artifical mound, doubtless a barrow of the same period. it is said that another mound was levelled at the time the Rugby and Stamford Railway was made its contents dispersed. (Cf SP 68 SW 1) (1) [SP 6240 8449] A mound, between the road and railway, [pointed out on ground] is said locally to be an antiquity (a) (2) A bowl barrow, approx. 20.0m. in diameter and approx. 1.5m high. The field and mound are under a crop of young wheat and, inaccessible. The barrow occupies the summit of a knoll in an undulating area. No evidence of a second barrow was seen along the nearby railway in the area indicated centred at SP 6270 8433. (3) Located and surveyed on field document. (4) No change. The barrow has been much spread by the plough and is correct as shown on OS 25" 1961. (5) The published barrow is now described as being destroyed by the OS Field Examiner. (6)

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Source Number : 1
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Source details : Trans. Leic. A. & A.S., Vol. 3 1874, pp.111-2, (Rev. Assheton Pownall) D. August 5.4.60
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Source Number : 2
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Source details : F1 WW 23-JUN-60
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Source Number : 2a
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Source details : Oral: Mr. J.T. Mattock, Farmer, Grange Farm, NorthKilworth.
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Source Number : 4
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Source details : LS 252 (B.Rodell March 1961)
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Source Number : 5
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Source details : F2 JB 01-AUG-71
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Source Number : 6
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Source details : OS Small Scale Reviser Oct 1988
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : Bronze Age
Monument End Date : -700
Monument Start Date : -2600
Monument Type : Bowl Barrow
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SP 68 SW 20
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Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1960-06-23
End Date : 1960-06-23

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1971-08-01
End Date : 1971-08-01

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 342261