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Description: | CROPMARKS OF A POSSIBLE PLOUGHED-OUT LONG BARROW, ALIGNED NORTHEAST-SOUTHWEST AND OF A TRAPEZOIDAL OR WEDGED SHAPE. SEEN ON A PAUL EVERSON AP OF 1979. {1}{2}~ THE MONUMENT APPEARS AS A CROPMARK TRAPEZOIDAL ENCLOSURE ALIGNED NORTH EAST - SOUTH WEST, DELINEATED BY A DITCH MEASURING C.42M BY 26M. THE DITCH IS NOT THOUGHT TO BE BROKEN BY A CAUSEWAY, A FORM REPRESENTING A SIMPLER TYPE OF THIS MONUMENT CLASS IN WHICH THE ENCLOSURE SET ASIDE FOR MORTUARY ACTIVITIES WAS NOT ELABORATED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF A LARGE EARTHEN MOUND. STRUCTURES AND DEPOSITS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE FEATURES WILL SURVIVE AS BURIED FEATURES. THE LONG BARROW IS ONE OF A NUMBER OF SIMILAR MONUMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE VALLEY OF THE WAITHE BECK AND THE RIVER BAIN, AND WITH HIGH STREET WHICH ORIGINATED AS A PREHISTORIC TRACKWAY AND WHICH LIES APPROXIMATELY 800M TO THE WEST. FOR A FULL DESCRIPTION SEE THE SCHEDULING DOCUMENT 27852. {3} THE LONG BARROW IS SITUATED ON LEVEL GROUND, AT THE HEAD OF A VALLEY OF A TRIBUTARY OF THE WAITHE BECK. IT IS ALIGNED E-W, FACES NE, AND IS EAST OF THE RIDGE SUMMIT AND HIGH STREET RIDGEWAY. ITS LONG AXIS RUNS PARALLEL TO THE CONTOURS. IT IS A SHORT, SQUAT, TRAPEZIFORM ENCLOSURE; THE DIMENSIONS ARE NOT CONSISTENT WITH OTHER MEMBERS IN THIS GROUP. {5}, LENGTH 52M, WIDTH 36M, HTM 135M | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 4000BC - 2351BC | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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