Scheduled Ancient Monument: BOWL BARROW IN TUNSTALL FOREST, 1300M SOUTH OF HEATH COTTAGES (21272)

The monument includes a bowl barrow, prominently sited on the crest of a small spur above a south-facing slope, overlooking a road, the B1078. The barrow is visible as an earthen mound, around which are traces of an encircling ditch and an outer, concentric bank. The mound covers a circular area 20m in diameter and stands to a height of c.1.1m. The ditch, from which earth was dug and used during construction of the barrow, has become largely infilled, but it survives as a buried feature and is marked on the north-western side of the mound by a slight hollow, c.3m in width and 0.2m deep, in the ground surface. Immediately beyond this hollow are the upstanding remains of the bank, in the form of an elongated, curving mound, measuring 4m in width and surviving to a height of c.0.15m.