Details

The monument includes a long barrow and two bowl barrows, all
surviving as earthworks and inconspicuously sited across a gentle
south-facing slope on a low spur. The long barrow is rectangular in
plan and orientated east-west. It survives to a length of 51m, is 16m
wide and 0.3m high. Flanking quarry ditches, surviving as buried
features, run parallel and adjacent to the mound on its north and
south sides. These survive to an average width of 5m.
The site was investigated in the late 19th century, producing
contracted skeletons and a secondary cremation. At a distance of
c.150m south-east of the long barrow are two bowl barrows, in close
proximity to each other and orientated east-west. The western of the
two mounds has a diameter of c.20m and the eastern mound a diameter of
22m. Both are 1m high. Ditches c.5m wide surround each of the mounds,
possibly converging in the area between them. Although no longer
visible as earthwork features, these survive below-ground and can be
defined by rings of darker earth surrounding the mounds.

MAP EXTRACT
The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.
It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features,
considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.

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Reasons for Scheduling

Long barrows were constructed as earthen or drystone mounds with
flanking ditches and acted as funerary monuments during the early
neolithic period (3000-2400bc). Where investigated, long barrows
appear to have been used for communal burial, often with only partial
human remains selected for interment. Some 500 long barrows are
recorded in England. As one of the few types of neolithic structure to
survive as earthworks, and due to their comparative rarity, their
considerable age and their longevity as a monument type, all long
barrows, unless very severely damaged, are considered to be nationally
important.
Bowl barrows, the most numerous form of round barrow, are funerary
monuments dating from the late Neolithic period to the late Bronze
Age, with most examples belonging to the period 2400-1500bc. They were
constructed as earthen or rubble mounds, sometimes ditched, which
covered single or multiple burials. There are over 10,000 surviving
bowl barrows recorded nationally.
They are particularly representative of their period and a substantial
proportion of surviving examples are considered worthy of protection.
The significance of both the long barrow and the bowl barrows in
enhanced considerably due to their close proximity.

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Sources

Books and journals
Smith, I F , Long Barrows in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1979), 12-13
Godwin, G N, 'Hampshire Notes and Queries' in Hampshire Field Club: Meeting at Houghton, Broughton..., , Vol. ix, (1898), 49-56

Source: Historic England