More information : (Centred SE 935439) Tumuli (NR) (Seven) (Four shown on 1958 6") (1)
A group of four or more mounds about two miles N of the Gardham group of barrows (which are at SE 94 SW 7), the following being two of three excavated by Greenwell and lying in a valley 1/2 mile W of barrow LXXIX (SE 94114383). (Distance is somewhat less than stated, but these would appear to be two of the above barrows). LXXX, oval in shape, 70ft x 62ft, probably caused by ploughing, and 4ft high. A central grave contained a primary adult cremation covered with a large quantity of charcoal.
LXXXI, 60ft in diameter and 3 1/2ft high. A central grave contained the primary cremation of a child lying on a layer of black-coloured sand containing charcoal. A similar layer 8 ins thick covered the cremation. (2)
Four barrows visible on RAF APs. (3)
Barrow 'A' SE 93504389; 'B' 93494385 oval in shape; 'C'
93684384; 'D' 93764383
'A'.Utilised a chalk knoll, with an irregular circular ditch giving it the semblance of a barrow, average diameter 66ft. Centre disturbed, no secondary burial found. Probably barrow LXXXI
'C'.Ditchless barrow 54ft in diameter (incorrectly identified as barrow LXXIX, see Authority 2) contained a small circular bank of chalk and flint around the central area.
'D'.A bell barrow with an irregular shaped ditch, diameter circa 80ft and a 4ft berm. A central grave 8ft x 4ft had been robbed. On the S side, the barrow and ditch had been destroyed by the ditch of a linear earthwork (Wold Entrenchment - SE 94 SW 15). (4-6)
Of the four published barrows 'A' and 'D' are virtually ploughed out, while 'B' and 'C' have been so reduced and spread as to be still discerible but not obvious. The sites of the remaining three can be envisaged but not surveyed. Published survey (25") revised. (7)
Full excavation report. Three round barrows on Etton Wold excavated 1969-70 by MPBW. Three of a group of four barrows excavated; two had been previously excavated by Greenwell and the third by a person unknown. Each barrow showed different construction details: A was a ditched bowl barrow, C a ditchless turf stack barrow with the central area encircled by a low bank of chalk and flint, and D was a turf stack bell barrow. The only notable finds came from the backfill of
Greenwell's trench in barrow C and consisted of two sherds from the
same collared vessel; the complete collared vessel found by Greenwell
is in the British Museum; the copper/bronze awl from the barrow is
lost. (8)
SE 9349 4385. Oval barrow 750m N of Wallis Grange. Scheduled RSM
No 21231. Identified as a Neolithic oval barrow, the only securely
identified example in Humberside. The mound survives up to a height
of 1.75m and measures 52m long E-W by 30m wide N-S. The ditch
survives as a buried feature 2m wide. Greenwell's LXXX, containing
a single adult probably cremated in situ in a small oval grave. (9)
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