Not bad for a barely perceptible bump in a field. Sounds like it deserves a bit more respect than getting a supermarket / housing estate dumped on it. Hmph.

Thank you for the further information below. I have discussed this with my colleagues who were involved with the monument protection programme and checked our records, however, while we may well have visited the site during the 1990s we did not compile a report. The likely reason for this is that they were deemed to not meet the criteria for scheduling because of poor survival and archaeological potential, and thus a report was not required (i.e. they were only written for those that met the criteria), but I cannot be definitive.

If the barrows are still identifiable as upstanding mounds over 0.5m high, and these mounds can be shown to be the original mounds not spoil tips for the excavation, then there is a potential to consider them for scheduling. If you would like us to do so then please submit your request via our online application form which is available on the English Heritage website:

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/protection/process/online-application-form/

Please include copies of or reference to any reports/information that supports the archaeological special interest of the sites. Photographs can also be helpful, but we ask that applicants do not trespass in order to take them.

The Local Planning Authority should take account of these barrows in terms of any proposed development and could ask for evaluation excavation because it is quite possible that there are contemporary burials in the area with no covering mounds. I would advise that you contact the Conservation Officer at the Council if you have further queries about this.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of further assistance in this matter.

Yours sincerely