Monument record 0078200000 - THORNBOROUGH MOUNDS

Plan Form - Circular.
Scheduled: SAM 27138. 2 large bowl barrows. East barrow 4m high, 27.4m diameter (B8).
West barrow 4.8m high, 36.5m diameter (in c.1913)(B5).
Both barrows opened 1839 & 1840; 1 had been previously robbed, other had rich cremation burial. Roman roads from Towcester, Irchester & Magiovinium meet nearby (B8).
Account of excavations in 1840 (B2).
NGR to site (B5).
APs (B11-13).
Sketch plan of medieval/post-medieval cultivation patterns surrounding mounds (B14).

Two barrows of Roman date are visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as extant earthworks and were mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located approximately 230m east of Thornborough Bridge and centred at SP 73135 33252. Two prominent mounds are visible, in a field of medieval ridge and earthworks, measuring 40m and 30m across. A further earthwork, which has been affected by medieval ploughing, but is still visible on lidar visualisations, can be seen to the west of them both. It measures approximately 15m across and appears to be lower at the centre. The two barrows are Scheduled. (15-19)