HeritageGateway - Home
Site Map
Text size: A A A
You are here: Home > > > > Cambridgeshire HER Result
Cambridgeshire HERPrintable version | About Cambridgeshire HER

CHER Number:MCB31255
Type of record:Monument
Name: A possible Bronze Age funerary mound

Summary

A possible Bronze Age funerary mound is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as low earthworks and was mapped as part of the East Cambridgeshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (ECB6189).

Grid Reference:TL 676 669
Parish:Chippenham, East Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire

Monument Type(s):

  • MOUND (Bronze Age - 2500 BC? to 701 BC)
  • BARROW (Bronze Age - 2500 BC? to 701 BC)

Associated Events:

  • Aerial Investigation Mapping Project, East Cambridgeshire (Ref: P7767)

Full description

1. A possible Bronze Age funerary mound is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as low earthworks and was mapped as part of the East Cambridgeshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (ECB6189). Located just east of Hilly Plantation and centred at TL 67645 66943, a roughly circular mound is about 30 metres in diameter.


<1> East Cambridgeshire AIM, 2020, Next Perspectives APGB Digital Terrain Model dated 24-JAN-2019, TL6766 (Geospatial data). SCB68989.

Sources and further reading

<1>Geospatial data: East Cambridgeshire AIM. 2020. Next Perspectives APGB Digital Terrain Model dated 24-JAN-2019. TL6766.

Related records

07448Related to: Chippenham Barrow Cemetery (Monument)