| Summary : A Roman barrow located 700 metres WNW of Clavering Farm, on the western side of Beard's Lane - a footpath and trackway which is thought to perpetuate the line of a road between the Roman settlements at Great Chesterford and Braughing. The barrow is circular in plan and measures 50 metres in diameter. Over the years the mound has been reduced by ploughing, yet it still rises to a domed profile of about 1 metre in height, and it clearly served as a mare prominent local landmark in the past. The Hon RC Neville (later Lord Braybrooke of Audley End) directed limited excavations on the mound in the mid-19th century. He found that the barrow had been disturbed in antiquity, but was nevertheless able to recover evidence of Roman origin. Fragments of glass, pottery and brick - which Neville termed 'the remnants of the sepulchral deposit' - were found near the centre of the mound. In the absence of evidence for a surrounding ditch, it is thought that the mound was constructed using material gathered from its surroundings or quarried elsewhere. Scheduled. |