| Details |
Site of round cairn/ barrow, a small cairn occupying a prominent knoll on edge of a meltwater channel, excavated in 1983. A two-phase monument consisting of a low but substantial circular cairn circa 14 m diameter and 0.8 m high, built on a burnt old land surface on which a small quantity of cremated bone and flint flakes were scattered. This cairn was subsequently enlarged by the insertion of a food vessel cremation and the addition of a barrow up to 1.2 m high of burnt turf and sandy subsoil. The food vessel was found prior to excavation, on the South side, where it had been exposed by animal erosion. The cremated bones were of a relatively young adult. It was excavated owing to its continuing erosion by stock. On conclusion, a low mound was reformed from the excavated stones and earth.
|
Historic Environment Records (HER)