More information : (TA 07606167) Fox Hill (NAT) Tumulus (NR) (1)
TA 07606167. Fox Hill. A flat-topped mound, 3m high, 25.9 m
diameter at base with 7.6 diameter of flat top, apparently made
of sand, at least at its surface, with no clear indications of a
ditch. A slight hollow 8.2m from the mound (but only 7.0m on the
SE side) may be the ditch. Tree crowned, cut into by the plough
on the E side.
No record of excavation. (2)
Ploughed all round and all trace of any ditch, obliterated;
otherwise as described.
Published survey (25") correct. (3)
TA 0760 6166. Bowl barrow on Fox Hill. Scheduled RSM No 21236.
A large Bronze Age bowl barrow, perhaps re-used in later periods.
The mound is now between 3m and 4m high and oval in shape,
measuring 21m SW-NE and 27m SE-NW. However, the barrow is respected
by a later field boundary to the NW and the better survival of the
mound against this boundary confirms that it was originally circular
and larger, its shape having been modified by ploughing. The ditch
survives as a buried feature 3m wide. On present evidence the
monument, which has not been excavated, is identified as a Bronze
Age barrow. However, because of its large size it has been suggested
that it could also represent a Roman burial mound and/or an early
medieval Thing mound. (4)
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