Scheduled Ancient Monument: BOWL BARROW 180M ENE OF SHEEP DRIFT FARM (21260)

The monument includes a bowl barrow which consists of an earthen mound encircled by a ditch. The mound covers an area c 19m in diameter and was recorded in 1977 as standing to a height of 0.5m. Since then it has been raised to c 1.8m by the dumping of topsoil and organic matter over the central area and converted into a garden feature. The original earthwork has a maximum height of c 0.4m where it projects beyond this cover on the southern and eastern sides, and it is also visible as a slight hump, c 0.25m in height, beneath the concrete surface of a track which crosses it on the northern side. The ditch, from which earth was dug and used during construction of the barrow, has become filled-in and, although visible at one time as a slight depression in the ground surface, it now exists only as a buried feature. Excluded from the scheduling are a fence which runs across the mound from east to west and the concrete surface of the track which crosses it on the northern side, although the ground beneath these features is included.