More information : SU 0247 1053. Two round barrows, probably Bronze Age in date, are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs and have been mapped by EH's Knowlton Circles Project. The barrows appear as plough levelled sub-circular mounds. The larger, at SU 0247 1053, is 14.5m in diameter and the smaller, at SU 0245 1054, is 11.6m in diameter. (1)
The barrows are associated with the extensive barrow cemetery known as the Knowlton Circles Barrow Group, and are probably Bronze Age in date. However, very small round barrows have been recorded elsewhere in England in Iron Age, Roman and Saxon contexts. Support for a post-Bronze Age date at Knowlton may perhaps be derived from the presence in the vicinity of possible Iron Age square barrows (SU 01 SW 210 and SU 01 SW 211); in one of the square barrow cemeteries at Garton Slack, on the Yorkshire Wolds, very small round barrows represented a very late phase of the burial rite. (2) |