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Details of barrow on Pastscape Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as an earthwork and mapped from aerial photographs. [SU 5071 8308] Fox Barrow [G.T.] (1) Fox Barrow is a bowl barrow mentioned in an Anglo Saxon charter, and situated at the junction of the Blewbury, Compton and East Ilsley parish boundaries. The mound is thirty paces in diameter, seven feet high and surrounded by a ditch. Scheduled. (2-3) 'Fox Barrow' has been spared by ploughing and there is now no trace of a ditch. Published survey (25") revised. (4) The barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. (5) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE TEXT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ( 1) General reference O.S. 6" (Prov.) 1960 ( 2) General reference Berks A.J. 40, 1936, 46. (L.V. Grinsell) ( 3) General reference A M S Eng and Wales 1961, 19. (Mow). ( 4) Field Investigators Comments F1 JP 23-APR-64 ( 5) Vertical aerial photograph reference number NMR OS/6431 208 17-MAY-1964

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