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Monument Types

• BARROW CEMETERY (Bronze Age - 2500 BC? to 801 BC?)

Summary

Cropmarks of many ring ditches (12 or more recorded on aerial photographs) on low lying land representing a linear, valley bottom Bronze Age barrow cemetery. Various ditches/sections of pit alignments were also recorded.

Additional Information

Ring ditches associated with the cemetery are: MLE3193, MLE8536, MLE8537, MLE8538, MLE8539, MLE8540, MLE8541, MLE8575, MLE8576, MLE8577, MLE8578, MLE8579, MLE8580.

<1> Pickering, J & Hartley, R F, 1985, Past Worlds in a Landscape - Archaeological Cropmarks in Leicestershire, p26-7 (Bibliographic reference). SLE37.

At least five ring ditches, probably the remains of Bronze Age barrows, on low lying land. (RFH 13/10/86)

Sources

Associated Finds

None recorded

Designations

• SHINE: Barrow cemetery north of Ratcliffe Culey

Associated Images

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