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A PLOUGHED OUT LONG BARROW ALIGNED W TO E WITH PARALLEL SIDES AND A COMPLETE DITCH CIRCUIT. {1} THE MONUMENT INCLUDES THE BURIED REMAINS OF A NEOLITHIC LONG BARROW LOCATED ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE RASE VALLEY, SOME 300 ENE OF BULLY HILL FARM. ALTHOUGH IT CANNOT BE SEEN ON THE GROUND, THE MONUMENT IS CLEARLY VISIBLE AS A CROPMARK ON AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS. THE OBLONG ENCLOSURE IS ALIGNED EAST-WEST AND IS COMPLETELY DELINEATED AND ENCIRCLED BY AN INFILLED DITCH MEASURING APPROXIMATELY 56 M LONG BY 30 M WIDE. IT IS THOUGHT THAT THIS UNBROKEN DITCH REPRESENTS THE SIMPLER TYPE OF LINCOLNSHIRE LONG BARROW IN WHICH THE ENCLOSURE SET ASIDE FOR MORTUARY ACTIVITIES WAS NOT ELABORATED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF A LARGE EARTHWORK MOUND. STRUCTURES ASSOCIATED WITH THESE ACTIVITIES WILL SURVIVE AS BURIED FEATURES WITHIN THE ENCLOSURE. IT IS SITUATED APPROXIMATELY 50 M FROM HIGH STREET, WHICH ORIGINATED AS A PREHISTORIC TRACKWAY, AND IT IS ONE OF A NUMBER OF NEOLITHIC AND BRONZE AGE BURIAL MOUNDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE VALLEY OF THE RIVER RASE, INCLUDING BULLY HILL BOWL BARROW WHICH IS LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 300 M TO THE SOUTH EAST AND WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF A SEPARATE SCHEDULING. ALTHOUGH BULLY HILL HAS BEEN DEGRADED BY PLOUGHING THE BURIED GROUND SURFACE AND THE FILLS OF THE DITCH WILL RETAIN RARE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INFORMATION RELATING TO ITS DATING AND CONSTRUCTION AND TO THE SEQUENCE OF BURIAL RITUAL AT THE SITE. ENVIRONMENTAL EVIDENCE PRESERVED IN THESE DEPOSITS WILL ILLUSTRATE THE NATURE OF THE LANDSCAPE IN WHICH THE MONUMENT WAS SET. {4}
THE LONG BARROW IS SITUATED ON THE EDGE OF THE WOLDS ESCARPMENT, ADJACENT TO THE HIGH STREET RIDGEWAY, FACING WEST, AND OVERLLOKING THE HEAD OF THE DEEP VALLEY OF THE RIVER RASE. IT IS ALIGNED W-E AND ITS LONG AXIS TRAVERSES THE CONTOURS. IT IS AN ENCLOSURE OF OBLONG FORM WITH CONVEX TERMINALS; THE EAST END IS MORE POINTED, AND THE SOUTH SIDE CURVES SLIGHTLY. THE INTERIOR SHOWS AS A DISTINCT CHALK MARK IN THE PLOUGH SOIL, AND IS OVERLAIN BY LINES OF FORMER RIDGE AND FURROW CULTIVATION. FIELDWALKING ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS BETWEEN 1986 AND 1994 REVEALED NO SURFACE TRACES OR FINDS. HOWEVER, THE SITE WAS DISCERNABLE AS A SLIGHTLY RAISED AREA SURROUNDED BY A SHALLOW DEPRESSION VIEWED FROM FURTHER ALONG THE HIGH STREET TO THE NORTH. {6}, LENGTH 56 M, WIDTH 30 M, HTM 135 M | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 4000BC - 2351BC | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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