Bowl barrow, 420m SW of New Beggarbog (Bardon Mill)
[NY 7937 6834] Tumulus [O.E.] (1)
A turf-covered tumulus 26m in diameter, and 4m high, slightly mutilated. See GP AO.56/356/3. (2)
Correctly described. Resurveyed at 1:2500. (3)
Scheduled. (4)
The date of the barrow is uncertain. This size of burial mound is unusual in Northumberland, and they are more usually stone cairns rather than earthen mounds. They are usually Bronze Age, or perhaps Neolithic in date, but a Roman date is also possible. (5)
At NY 7937 6834, on the S side of the modern road is a large round barrow, about 4m high, and originally about 26m in diameter, but it has been trimmed on the N side along the edge of the road, and by small scale digging in the S and E. There is no trace of a ditch or retaining kerb-stones. The most prominent damage is an old excavation trench, up to 3m wide and 1m deep, cutting the mound from E to W; it had already been dug by 1769 (6b). Barrows of this size are exceptional in Northumberland large burial mounds (usually cairns of stones) are normally found to contain Bronze Age material, although some may be Neolithic. Roman barrows are known elsewhere in Northumberland, but those identified as Roman are much smaller and of a distinctive type. Nevertheless this example may be contemporary with Housesteads Roman fort, from which it would be a prominent feature. Surveyed by RCHME at 1:1000. (6a)
Located on the English Heritage map of Hadrian's Wall 2010. (6c)
General association with HER 6564 (Housesteads Roman Fort). (6)
A turf-covered tumulus 26m in diameter, and 4m high, slightly mutilated. See GP AO.56/356/3. (2)
Correctly described. Resurveyed at 1:2500. (3)
Scheduled. (4)
The date of the barrow is uncertain. This size of burial mound is unusual in Northumberland, and they are more usually stone cairns rather than earthen mounds. They are usually Bronze Age, or perhaps Neolithic in date, but a Roman date is also possible. (5)
At NY 7937 6834, on the S side of the modern road is a large round barrow, about 4m high, and originally about 26m in diameter, but it has been trimmed on the N side along the edge of the road, and by small scale digging in the S and E. There is no trace of a ditch or retaining kerb-stones. The most prominent damage is an old excavation trench, up to 3m wide and 1m deep, cutting the mound from E to W; it had already been dug by 1769 (6b). Barrows of this size are exceptional in Northumberland large burial mounds (usually cairns of stones) are normally found to contain Bronze Age material, although some may be Neolithic. Roman barrows are known elsewhere in Northumberland, but those identified as Roman are much smaller and of a distinctive type. Nevertheless this example may be contemporary with Housesteads Roman fort, from which it would be a prominent feature. Surveyed by RCHME at 1:1000. (6a)
Located on the English Heritage map of Hadrian's Wall 2010. (6c)
General association with HER 6564 (Housesteads Roman Fort). (6)
N6588
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1956; A S Phillips
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1966; R W Emsley
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION, English Heritage: Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, NMP 2008; English Heritage
MEASURED SURVEY, RCHME: Housesteads Survey
MEASURED SURVEY, RCHME: Hadrian's Wall Project ; RCHME
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1966; R W Emsley
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION, English Heritage: Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, NMP 2008; English Heritage
MEASURED SURVEY, RCHME: Housesteads Survey
MEASURED SURVEY, RCHME: Hadrian's Wall Project ; RCHME
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