Details

The monument includes a round barrow situated on undulating ground in the Vale
of Mowbray.
The barrow is a prominent earthen mound standing 2m high. It is round in shape
and is 20m 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. The wall crossing the eastern edge of the ditch is excluded
from the scheduling, although the ground beneath this feature is included.

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.

Source: Historic England

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.

This barrow has survived well and has a well defined mound, retaining the
conditions for the preservation of features within and beneath it. 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