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Designations

• Scheduled Monument () 1009413: The Mount bell barrow 110m south west of Mound Farm

Monument Type(s):

• BELL BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Summary

Well preserved Bronze Age bell barrow known as 'The Mount'. See description for details of survival.

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds:

Description

1) The barrow mound measures 22m in diameter and stands up to 2.2m high. A level 2m wide berm around the base of the mound is surrounded by a quarry ditch from which material was obtained during construction of the monument. This ditch has become partially infilled over the years but remains visible at ground level as a shallow depression 4m wide and c.0.4m deep. Beyond the ditch, there are traces of an outer bank which survives up to 1m wide and 0.1m high.

2) Round barrow - large mound, no sign of bailey and unlikely to be a motte. Might be a Saxon barrow of Asthall. It has a fine surrounding ditch, a conical top, and there is a trace of revetment at base of slope. All these signs might be due to C18th reworking of mound.

3) This is a fine, undamaged bowl barrow, 22m in diameter and 2.2m high surrounded by a ditch, 505m wide and 0.7m deep. There is a strong possibility that the present conical appearance of the mound is due to an early C19 landscaping when it was first planted with conifers; it is now ringed at base with 50 year old conifers.

4) Classified as Anglo Saxon hlaew for MPP; not scored as bell barrow because of other identification; SVL, 26/09/08.

<1> English Heritage, Scheduled Ancient Monuments Record, SM 21809 (Scheduling record). SOX283.

<2> Victoria County History of Oxford, Vol II, p.345 (Serial). SOX252.

<3> OS Record Card, SP 22 SE 8 (Index). SOX273.

<4> MPP Documents for Oxfordshire, S Lisk, 27.1.93 (Index). SOX259.

<5> Black and White print photographs, 1 aerial view taken 1972/3 by Helicopter Training School, Netheravon (Photograph). SOX315.

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