MSO11748 - Bronze Age round barrow southwest of Portford Bridge (Monument)

Barrow at SS 828 342 c.4 metres diameter, 1.25 metres high with exterior ditch and bank on south and southeast. Disturbed on east side. [1] National Grid Reference corrected to SS 8299 3411. Prehistoric cairn measuring 11 metres in diameter. It has been extensively robbed and survives as a stony rim of material. A central, sharply defined conical mound 4.2 metres in diameter and 0.6 metres high may represent residual cairn material, but is more likely to a be a later dump associated with agricultural improvement. [3] This record was enhanced as part of the National Record of the Historic Environment to Exmoor National Park Historic Environment Record data transfer project. [4]