More information : SU 0249 1038. Three very small round barrows, visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs, have been recorded just to the northwest of the Great Barrow in the Knowlton Circles Barrow Group. Two of the small barrows have diameters of 8.1m, and the third is 8.5m in diameter. They have been built among larger Bronze Age mounds, and could be of similar date. However, their small size suggests that a later date is possible. (1)
The date of these barrows is uncertain. Very small round barrows have been recorded elsewhere in England in Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and Saxon contexts. Support for a post-Bronze Age date at Knowlton may perhaps be derived from the presence in the vicinity of possible Iron Age square barrows (SU 01 SW 210, SU 01 SW 211): in one of the square barrow cemeteries at Garton Slack, on the Yorkshire Wolds, very small round barrows represented a very late phase of the Iron Age burial rite. (2) |