More information : ('A') (TQ53860282) Tumulus (NR) (1)
(A) Bowl-barrow 12 paces in diameter and 2 ft high. There are one or two possible barrows SW of it, which appear on the air-photo of the area in Crawford's "Air Photography for Archaeologists", Plate V (2)
Two possible barrows plotted approximately (at TQ53600256 and TQ53600251 - 'B' and 'C' respectively) (See OS AP42853 with TQ 50 SW 78). (3)
Scarcely visible on RAF A/Ps. (4)
Four certain bowl barrows including those noted by Grinsell and Crawford (A-C) and one other (D at TQ5370 0158), situated on a S-facing spur under rough pasture within an IA/RB field system (TQ 50 SW 78).
'A' is as described by Grinsell.
'B' is c 12.5m in diameter and 0.7m high with a central hollow.
'C' is c 9.0m diameter and 0.7m high with a central hollow. It occurs on the end of a positive lynchet.
'D' is c 11.0m in diameter and 0.5m high with a central hollow.
Published survey (25") of 'A' revised, B-D surveyed at 1:2500. (5)
This record now deals only with barrow 'A'. Although B, C and D appear to form a coherent group, the distances between them are more than 35m in each case, while D is more than 250 metres from its nearest neigbour.
Barrow A is located very close to lynchets belonging to the field system TQ 50 SW 78. It is towards the NE limits of the field system, with just two lines of lynchets beyond (ie it lies within the penultimate strip of fields). It is located close to the junction between one of the lynchets that runs across the hill, and the long sinuous lynchet which runs along the central spine of the hill. It is impossible to certain from the available APs, but this latter may terminate adjacent to the barrow. The earliest available aerial photos, taken in October 1925 (the one reproduced in Crawford's 'Air Photography for Archaeologists', as noted above), appears to show the barrow mound as a distinct and separate feature - ie it sits in the corner of a field, but neither overlies, nor is overlain by , a lynchet. (6)
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