Monument record 2042/0/1 - Bronze Age Round Barrow

A bowl barrow 600m north east of Rose Farm. It is about 26m in diameter and 0.25m high, with a broad, almost flat top 2m across. A quarry ditch, approximately 5m wide, surviving as a buried feature, surrounds the mound. Scheduled

{1} Snowden's Meadow. Possible round barrow in low lying area close to Nene.

{2} Slight trace of a ditch recognised during flooding; Hall & Foard (1976); Fieldname: Snowdens Meadow.

{3} Bowl barrow visible as a flat-topped circular mound up to 0.5m high and 26m in diameter. Although no longer visible at ground level, a ditch, from which material was quarried during the construction of the monument, surrounds the mound. The ditch has been infilled, but survives as a buried feature identifiable on aerial photographs.

{5} Earthwork- possibly a Bronze Age Barrow; c 30 metres in diameter and 0.25 metres high; a broad nearly flat top c. 2 metres wide. No trace of a ditch.

<1> HOLLOWELL R., 1971, Aerial Photography and Fieldwork in the Upper Nene Valley, 6/7/ site 1 (checked) (Journal). SNN106546.

<2> Hall, D., 1976, Oral report to SMR, (unchecked) (Oral Report). SNN50871.

<3> 1996, SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENTS: SCHEDULE ENTRY., (unchecked) (Notes). SNN46251.

<4> SUPPLEMENTARY FILE, (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN51902.

<5> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.19 site 2 (checked) (Series). SNN77380.

<6> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, Used with NMR & CUCAP collections (Photographs). SNN104822.

Record last edited

Aug 18 2022 10:22AM