Date: 2003
Description: Ring-ditches are the remains of Early to Middle Bronze-Age (c2400-1300) burial mounds (barrows) that have been ploughed out. They are usually only seen from the air as patterns in crops, or as very slight earthworks on the ground. This ring-ditch under excavation is part of a group of barrows (barrow cemetery) in the Upper Severn Valley at Meole Brace near Shrewsbury. The ditch would have been continuous and around 1 metre deep. A mound of earth (barrow) or stones (cairn) would have covered the main burial in the central pit. Other burials and cremations may have been dug into the mound later (Photograph by Dr Paul Stamper).
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