Details

The monument includes a round barrow situated amid a thick plantation set on
undulating ground in the Vale of Mowbray.
The barrow has an earthen mound standing 0.5m high. It is round in shape and
is 17m in diameter. The mound was surrounded by a ditch up to 3m wide which
has become filled in over the years and is no longer visible as an earthwork.
It is one of a closely associated group of barrows grouped around two earlier
henge monuments.

MAP EXTRACT
The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.
It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features,
considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.

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Reasons for Scheduling

Bowl barrows, the most numerous form of round barrow, are funerary monuments
dating from the Late Neolithic period to the Late Bronze Age, with most
examples belonging to the period 2400-1500 BC. They were constructed as
earthen or rubble mounds, sometimes ditched, which covered single or multiple
burials. They occur either in isolation or grouped as cemeteries and often
acted as a focus for burials in later periods. Often superficially similar,
although differing widely in size, they exhibit regional variations in form
and a diversity of burial practices. There are over 10,000 surviving bowl
barrows recorded nationally (many more have already been destroyed), occurring
across most of lowland Britain. Often occupying prominent locations, they are
a major historic element in the modern landscape and their considerable
variation of form and longevity as a monument type provide important
information on the diversity of beliefs and social organisations amongst early
prehistoric communities. They are particularly representative of their period
and a substantial proportion of surviving examples are considered worthy of
protection.

Despite being situated within woodland this barrow is visible as a mound,
retaining conditions for the preservation of features within and beneath
the mound. Significant information about the original form, burials placed
within it and evidence of earlier land use beneath the mound will be
preserved.
The monument is one of a group of closely associated barrows which are in turn
associated with two earlier henge monuments. Similar associations between such
monuments are known elsewhere in this part of the Vale of Mowbray. Such
associations offer important scope for study of the development of burial
practice and of continuity of use of ritual sites in the prehistoric period.

Source: Historic England

Sources

Other
Manby T G, The Lowlands and eastern Foothills, 1993,

Source: Historic England