More information : (NB. This monument was previously recorded as part of Monument HOB UID 221097 - SU 16 SW 8. Please see this record for any additional information.)
(Barrow A; SU 1157 6376) Tumulus (NR) (1)
On Walker's Hill - Alton 16 (Barrow A); A bell barrow, 75 x 6 1/2 feet berm 15 ft ditch ploughed away. Is connected to Barrow C, (Monument HOB UID 1461996) by a bank (2) described by Crawford as a Pillow Mound (see Monument HOB UID 1461987)(3).
SU 1157 6376; Alton 16; a bell barrow 40 metres overall diameter with its mound up to 2.6 metres high above a 0.4 metre deep ditch, and a raised berm on average 3 metres wide.
Resurveyed at 1:2500. (4)
The two Bronze Age bell barrows and the bowl barrow, and the Medieval or Post Medieval pillow mound, described by the previous authority have been mapped from aerial photographs. (5)
A bell barrow, part of a barrow group comprising three round barrows on Walkers Hill. The barrow is the most northern of the group and survives to a height of 2 metres and has a diameter of 24 metres. No traces of the barrow ditch survive. The barrow is connected to the other bell barrow (Monument HOB UID 1461996) by a Medieval pillow mound (Monument HOB UID 1461987).
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