Details

The monument includes a long barrow surviving as an earthwork in an arable
field and situated on a flat-topped spur adjacent to a firing range. The
barrow mound is orientated SE-NW and is rectangular in plan. It is 70m long,
20m wide and survives to a height of c.1m. Flanking quarry ditches run
parallel to the mound on its NE and SW sides. These average 7.5m wide and may
originally have been separated from the mound by narrow berms.
A sherd of Neolithic pottery was found in a rabbit scrape at the SE end of the
barrow in 1940.
Two further long barrows are visible from the mound, one (now levelled) 100m
to the SE and one 750m to the west.

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

Long barrows were constructed as earthen or drystone mounds with flanking
ditches and acted as funerary monuments during the Early and Middle Neolithic
periods (3400-2400 BC). They represent the burial places of Britain's early
farming communities and, as such, are amongst the oldest field monuments
surviving visibly in the present landscape. Where investigated, long barrows
appear to have been used for communal burial, often with only parts of the
human remains having been selected for interment. Certain sites provide
evidence for several phases of funerary monument preceding the barrow and,
consequently, it is probable that long barrows acted as important ritual sites
for local communities over a considerable period of time. Some 500 long
barrows are recorded in England. As one of the few types of Neolithic
structure to survive as earthworks, and due to their comparative rarity, their
considerable age and their longevity as a monument type, all long barrows are
considered to be nationally important.

The 180 long barrows of Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorset form the densest and
one of the most important concentrations of monuments of this type in the
country. This example is important as it is one of a rare cluster of similar
barrows and, with no evidence of formal excavation, it has considerable
archaeological potential.

Source: Historic England

Sources

Books and journals
Smith, I F , Long Barrows in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1979)
Grinsell, L V, 'Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club' in Hampshire Barrows, (1939)

Source: Historic England