| Summary : Two prehistoric round barrows situated on a gentle north-facing slope in open moorland. SX58046135, the original form and composition of this barrow is unclear - it is now visible as a well-defined flat topped mound apparently retained by a contiguous? ring of upright moorstones set within an earthen bank or scarp. The mound is a maximum 22m in overall diameter and the granite retaining ring is 15.6m in diameter. The interior is approximately 0.2m above ground surface level; some boulders within the rim protrude 0.1m above the level of the earthen bank or scarp which is on average 0.3m high. SX58046121. A round barrow composed of soil with some stone, is up to 9.5m in diameter and 0.9m high. The interior is disturbed by a central pit which is 2.3m across and 0.5m deep. A linear bank, with a vague ditch on the west side, slightly deviates around the mound. This bank may, however, overlie a reave (SX56SE119) which was probably connected to the mound. |
More information : Two tumuli on Ridding Down:
a. SX 581612 A barrow 60 feet in diameter and 1 1/2 feet high. It is flat topped and has a stone rim.
b. SX 581613 A cairn 30 feet in diameter and 3 feet high with a hole in its centre. It is cut by a boundary bank. (1)
b. At SX 58066120 there is a turf-covered cairn with an overall diameter of 7.7m. and a height of 0.8m. The stone content is
exposed in the excavation hollow in the top. It is not cut by the bank (see SX 56 SE 119) which deviates to curve around the NW side of the cairn. (see ground photograph and plan).
a. At SX 58066135 there is a fine barrow or cairn completely circular, with an overall diameter of 21.0m. It is formed by a platform 0.3m. high with a perimeter bank between 3.8m. and 4.5m. wide, 0.1m. high on the inner face (0.4m. high on the outer). The whole is bracken covered but seems to be of earth construction, save for a half dozen stones that protrude for about 0.1m. from the top of the rim. It is uncertain if stones were originally contiguous; a number may have been removed to build a local field wall. (See plan).
Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. (2)
Two prehistoric round barrows situated on a gentle north-facing slope in open moorland. SX58046135, the original form and composition of this barrow is unclear - it is now visible as a well-defined flat topped mound apparently retained by a contiguous? ring of upright moorstones set within an earthen bank or scarp. The mound is a maximum 22m in overall diameter and the granite retaining ring is 15.6m in diameter. The interior is approximately 0.2m above ground surface level; some boulders within the rim protrude 0.1m above the level of the earthen bank or scarp which is on average 0.3m high. SX58046121. A round barrow composed of soil with some stone, is up to 9.5m in diameter and 0.9m high. The interior is disturbed by a central pit which is 2.3m across and 0.5m deep. A linear bank, with a vague ditch on the west side, slightly deviates around the mound. This bank may, however, overlie a reave (SX56SE119) which was probably connected to the mound. (3) |