A saucer barrow, a disc barrow, and a bowl barrow, all arranged in a compact triangle. And then someone dug a forestry track through the middle of them at some point between the 1930s and the 1970s. Nice one. The arrangement is very unusual and definitely worth a visit I thought. Well, I didn't make it. They are well inside private woodland and although I decided to strike out for them for some guerilla photography along the track which actually bisects the barrows, I got spooked. I'm not one for that sort of thing (I'm a statistician you know!) and I usually feel at home in dense woodland but somehow it felt really hostile in there. When I hit a fence not marked on the maps, I legged it back the way I came as fast as I could.
Lots of detail of the damage caused by the farm track and ploughing at http://www.magic.gov.uk/rsm/34158.pdf which concludes with the telling sentence "The piles of logs, gamefeeders and fence situated on the monument are excluded from the scheduling, although the ground beneath them is included." Kind of makes you wonder what the value of scheduling is...
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