NHER 8306 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Probable Bronze Age round barrow (Barrow B), northeast of Waterloo Farm, Sturston

Part of Barrow Group.
Round barrow reported by J. Coad (Department of the Environment Inspector) 1971 as 100ft diameter 5ft high, shell holed. 32m diameter, 1.2m high, depression in centre, grassed on heath of battle area.
Compiled by A. J. Lawson (NAU), 1976.

See file for Ancient Monuments Record Form (S1).

1983. No change. Hummocky and bracken covered.
Comp. J. Wymer (NAU).

October 2003. Visit.
Bracken covered, minimal rabbit disturbance. Bracken will be cut if this is necessary for firing exercise.
H. Paterson (A&E), 16 February 2004.

March 2011.
Section 17 agreement signed.
See (S3).
D. Robertson (HES), 28 March 2011.

September 2012.
The probable round barrow described above is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs (S4)-(S5). Together with four other mounds, it forms what is probably a dispersed Bronze Age barrow cemetery (NHER 58031), although no dating evidence has been recovered from the mounds and their interpretation as barrows is not conclusive. The aerial photographic assessment and mapping project undertaken for the barrow group (S6) has corrected the central grid reference of the mound from TL 8702 9350 to TL 8702 9357. As visible on the photographs (which are not particularly clear) the mound is oval in shape and measures up to 40.9m in diameter. A possible outer ditch is visible around the northern half of the mound. No clear traces of the military damage reported above were visible on the consulted aerial photographs.
S. Tremlett (HES), 20 September 2012.