More information : 6670 6669 SU 66 NE, 67 SE Area centred SU 664701 BURGHFIELD Complex of intersecting linear features (land drains?). 2 circles. 2 rectangular enclosures, one with internal division, at NW of complex. Isolated linear features to E at 668701. ST JOESPH 57 VP 65; 70 BCH 78-79. NMR 70 SU 6670/4/59-64. (1) Two ring ditches were excavated, one at SU 66357010 and one at SU 66557015. They were dated to the Bronze Age on the presence of a bucket urn and a radiocarbon date of 110-+100BC (2)
The two Bronze Age round barrows, described by the previous authorities were visible as cropmarks and have beeen mapped from aerial photographs. They measure 20m and 10m in diameter and are centred at SU 6636 7008 and SU 6656 7014 respectively. The excavations, referred to by authority 2, were carried out prior to gravel extraction and the barrows have been destroyed.
The other features referred to by authority 1 appear to be unconnected to the barrows and so have been described separately in SU 67 SE 109.
(Morph No.s TG.321.7.1-2) This description is based on information from a MORPH2 database. (3) |