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Bank barrow
Type of tumulus / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A bank barrow, sometimes referred to as a barrow-bank, ridge barrow, or ridge mound, is a type of tumulus first identified by O.G.S. Crawford in 1938.
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In the United Kingdom, these take the form of a long, sinuous, parallel-sided mound, approximately uniform in height and width along its length, and usually flanked by ditches on either side. They may be the result of a single phase of construction, or be the result of the addition of one or more linear extensions to the bank of a pre-existing barrow. Although burials have been found within the mound, no burial chambers as such have been identified in bank barrows. These ancient monuments are of middle Neolithic date.
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Fewer than ten bank barrows remain in the United Kingdom. Examples may be found at
- Maiden Castle, Broadmayne and Martin's Down in Dorset; and
- Long Low near Wetton in Staffordshire.