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Description: | PRN 42977
Soilmarks of a ditched, slightly elongated oblong enclosure with rounded corners, seen on Paul Everson aerial photographss of 1980. {1}
The monument includes the buried remains of a Neolithic long barrow located below the summit of a low plateau between two wide, shallow river valleys. The western river drains into the river Lymn, and that to the east is a tributary of the beck. Although the monument cannot be seen on the ground, it is clearly visible from the air as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It appears as an elongated oblong enclosure aligned north west to south east, some 60 metres long by 35 metres wide. The cropmark representing the surrounding ditch has rounded corners and its circuit is unbroken, a form which is thought to indicate an example of a simpler type of this monument class. The central enclosure would have been the focus for mortuary activities including the exposure of human remains, and structures and deposits relating to this activity will survive as buried features. The monument is situated less than three kilometres south of both the Skendleby group of long barrows and the pair known as Deadmen's graves. The barrow will retain rare and valuable archaeological deposits on the buried ground surface and in the fills of the ditch. These will provide important information concerning the dating and construction of the barrow, and the sequence of mortuary ritual at the site. Environmental evidence preserved in the same contexts will illustrate the appearance of the landscape in which the monument was set. For more detail see scheduling document 27888. {2}
RCHME give the grid reference as TF 4379 6904. {3}
Trapezoidal enclosure aligned south south east to north north west with straight terminals; recorded as soilmarks and cropmarks. A large rectilinear enclosure with entrance gap on east side, lies immediately adjacent, 30 metres to north. Fieldwalking (16/3/1991) revealed no surface traces and yielded two Romano British grey ware sherds from general area of adjacent enclosure. {4} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 4000BC - 2351BC | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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