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Latitude: 55.718 / 55°43'4"N
Longitude: -2.4444 / 2°26'39"W
OS Eastings: 372177
OS Northings: 647264
OS Grid: NT721472
Mapcode National: GBR C2CB.L2
Mapcode Global: WH8XD.FJ6V
Entry Name: Eastfield, barrow 650m NW of
Scheduled Date: 11 August 1989
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4719
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: barrow
Location: Greenlaw
County: Scottish Borders
Electoral Ward: Mid Berwickshire
Traditional County: Berwickshire
The monument is a burial mound, apparently composed of soil and stones, of the earlier Bronze Age. It lies in a hand-planted forestry plantation. It measures 18m in diameter and over 1m high. Although trees are growing on the monument the old land surface, preserved beneath the mound, along with the burials the mound will cover, should survive. An area 40m in diameter is proposed for scheduling, centred on the mound.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is a well preserved large example of an uncommon type. Not only will primary and secondary burials survive beneath it, but a portion of the contemporary old land surface beneath it will be preserved. Examination of the old land surface would provide important information about land use 3500 years ago. The monument is of national importance to the theme of earlier Bronze Age burial and ceremonial practices and to the theme of prehistoric land use.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NT 74 NW 1.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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