ROUND BARROW Q
Excavation results at the Triple Ring Ditch
Description:
Triple Ditched Round Barrow
Period:
Early Neolithic (3800 BC)
Original status:
A triple ditched round barrow of 27 metres diameter. The original height is unclear but was probably no less than 2.5
metres. A multi-phase monument, the three ditches appear to have been constructed one after another, gradually making the
monument larger and more complex. It contained the inhumations of at least six individuals, one primary, the others within
the mound. No grave goods were associated with the burials, suggesting their Neolithic date.
Current status:
The barrow is currently under the plough, and significant damage is being
done to its archaeological deposits. The mound has been almost
completely destroyed. Excavation suggests that extremely significant
deposits survive at this site, including burials. Deposits survive 0.3m
below the surface, but the location of this barrow on the ridge edge mean
that the ploughsoil is constantly being moved down hill and therefore
each ploughing event is removing more of the surviving archaeology.
Geophysical survey at the Triple Ring Ditch
VALUE / POTENTIAL
FRAGILITY / LIMITATIONS
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Flattened by ploughing
Extensive damage to burials within mound
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Survival of ditch deposits
Significant and unusual archaeological
deposits survive, including burials
Potential presence of other significant
archaeological deposits, examples of which
are known from many other excavated
barrows
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