More information : ('A'-SY 90128737; 'B' - SY 90118733) Tumuli (NR) (two shown) (1) 'A' Dimensions: Diam 9 yards. Height 3ft undisturbed. 'B' Dimensions: Diam 17 yards. Height 5ft. Flat topped shallow surrounding ditch. (2) Two barrows lettered A & B, both heather covered. 'B' Diameter 14.0 metres. Height 1.8 metres. A surrounding ditch has an average depth of 0.3m. and width of 1.3 metres. This has been mutilated on the W side by a land drainage trench. No berm visible. A bowl barrow. (3) 'A' Diameter 6.5 metres; height 0.8 metres. No sign of a berm, but three trenches have been dug in what appears to be an unsurveyable ditch. No other sign of mutilation. Probably a bowl barrow. 'A' SY 90138736. Bowl barrow, possibly ditched, 38 yards NNE of 'B'. Diameter 32 feet, height 5feet. Cut by modern field boundary. 'B' SY 90128733. Ditched bowl barrow, diameter 40 ft height 4 1/2 feet. Ditch 6 1/2 feet wide and up to 9 inches deep. Scheduled.(4)
Barrow `A' has been partly cut by ploughing on the south side. Barow `B' has also been partly cut by ploughing. (5)
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