Summary

This barrow lies beside the Ridgeway south of the road. It is the most southerly of the Ivinghoe Beacon Barrow Cemetery.

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Description

This barrow lies beside the Ridgeway south of the Beacon Road.The mound is 15 metres wide and 0.75 metres high, the ditch is not visible. It is at present the most southerly barrow of the Ivinghoe Beacon Barrow Cemetery so far identified. There is a second smaller group of barrows 3km south at Moneybury Hill and it is likely that there is some connection between the two groups. It is also possible that other barrow remains may yet be discovered in the intervening landscape.

(G Marshall)

Brief Description of Round Barrow Cemeteries.

Round barrows (of which a bowl barrow is one type) date to the Bronze Age (2000-700 B.C.).They usually comprise of fairly closely spaced groups of up to 30 barrows. The construction is that of rubble or earth being piled up to cover single or multiple burials. In the case of the bowl barrow type, the mound material was principally obtained by digging a circular ditch and heaping the spoil in the centre to cover the burial. The surrounding ditches often silt up over time, but are usually visible as faint depression or as a crop mark.Most cemeteries developed over a considerable period of time, often many centuries They were also often re-used for secondary burials as in the case of Anglo-Saxon burials. They exhibit considerable diversity of burial rite, plan and form, frequently including several different types of round barrow. Occasionally earlier forms of long barrow are associated with round barrow cemeteries. Wherever large scale excavation has been undertaken beyond barrows, contemporary and/or later "flat" burials have been found. This should be taken into consideration when assessing how best to manage the overall barrow cemetery landscape.
Round barrow cemeteries occur across most of lowland Britain, with a marked concentration in Wessex and in some cases they cluster around other monuments such as henges.

(M Solik)

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