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OVAL PLOUGHED MOUND; PROBABLE NEOLITHIC LONG BARROW CROPMARK. {1}{2}
THE MONUMENT INCLUDES THE BURIED REMAINS OF A NEOLITHIC LONG BARROW. ALTHOUGH IT CANNOT BE SEEN ON THE GROUND IT HAS BEEN RECORDED ON AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS AS A CROPMARK REPRESENTING THE BURIED FEATURES INCLUDING A MORTUARY ENCLOSURE ENCIRCLED BY A DITCH. THE MONUMENT IS ALIGNED SE-NW AND MEASURES C.52M BY 30M. THE DITCH IS RECTANGULAR IN PLAN WITH ROUNDED ENDS, THAT TO THE NORTH WEST BEING SLIGHTLY FLATTENED. THE CENTRAL ENCLOSURE WAS SET ASIDE FOR FUNERARY ACTIVITIES AND DEFINED BY AN UNBROKEN DITCH WHICH MAY HAVE SUPPORTED A PALISADE AND FACADE OR AN ARRANGEMENT OF POSTS. STRUCTURES AND DEPOSITS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE ACTIVITIES WILL SURVIVE AS BURIED FEATURES. SOME LINCOLNSHIRE LONG BARROWS WERE ELABORATED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF LARGE EARTHWORK MOUNDS DURING THE FINAL RITUAL PHASE. THE MATERIAL FOR SUCH MOUNDS WAS QUARRIED FROM ENCIRCLING DITCHES WHICH ARE CHARACTERISED BY SINGLE CAUSEWAYS. HOWEVER, THE UNBROKEN NATURE OF THIS DITCH INDICATES THAT THIS WAS A FORM OF LONG BARROW WHICH, WHEN THE MORTUARY RITUALS WERE COMPLETE, WAS GIVEN A LOW COVERING OF SCRAPED EARTH RATHER THAN A HIGH MOUND. {3}
THIS LONG BARROW IS SITUATED ON THE SUMMIT OF A WEST ESCARPMENT, AT THE HEAD OF A DRY VALLEY. (HOD GIVEN AS 140M). IT IS ALIGNED W-E, AND ITS LONG AXIS TRAVERSES THE CONTOURS. IT IS AN ENCLOSURE OF OVAL FORM, CONTAINING A SMALL CIRCULAR FEATURE ABOUT 4M IN DIAMETER TOWARDS THE WEST END, AN IS INTERPRETED AS A GRAVE. FIELDWALKING YIELDED NO FINDS, BUT SHOWED THE POSITION OF THE ENCLOSURE TO CORRESPOND TO AN AREA OF SANDY BROWN SOIL, MARKEDLY DEVOID OF FLINT AND CHALK. {4}, LENGTH 62M, WIDTH 40M, HTM 120M | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 4000BC - 2351BC | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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