The earthwork remains of two prehistoric or Roman round barrows and, adjacent to the easternmost barrow, the buried remains of a Romano-British or earlier funerary and ritual site. …

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Standing some 210m to the north-west, centred at SP029502659, are the earthworks of a second barrow of prehistoric or Roman date. It stands up to 1.7m high and has a diameter of 21m …

By 1884, when the first edition Ordnance Survey map for Gloucestershire was published, the barrow had come to be known as ‘Tar Barrow’. At that time, a second barrow, also known as …

Tar barrow (barrow “B” at SP 0311 0252) appears to have been used as a marker for the laying out of part of the medieval open field system which once extended across the fields on the …

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Jun 5, 2023 · What is a barrow? Marked as “tumuli” on early maps, barrows are mounds of earth or stone of various shapes and sizes that are characteristic of prehistoric earthwork …

Jan 15, 2012 · The top destination for Prehistoric and Ancient Sites worldwide. Tar Barrow: Round Barrow (s) in Gloucestershire.

Tar-Barrow is a burial mound just outside the Roman defences of Corinium/Cirencester in Gloucestershire. It has attracted attention since at least its first mention in the Cartulary of …

Aerial analysis and geophysical survey of the Tar Barrows and their environs in 2007 demonstrated that they formed part of an extensive complex of features covering c.50 ha …