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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Tangham CottagesCountry: England County: Suffolk Type: Round Barrow(s)
Map Ref: TM34464769
Latitude: 52.077890N Longitude: 1.420190E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Couplands visited on 19th Jun 2025 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 3
Information from Historic England entry:
'The monument includes a bowl barrow which consists of an earthen mound and an encircling ditch. The barrow mound covers an area 17m in diameter and stands to a maximum height of 1m. The surrounding ditch, from which earth was dug and used in the construction of the mound, has for the most part become filled-in, but survives as a buried feature and is visible on the south-east side of the mound as a slight depression measuring 4m wide and 0.25m deep. In 1987 two sherds of Bronze Age pottery were found in the soil cast up from a recent trench 2.7m long, 0.9m wide and 1.2m deep which had been dug without consent into the summit of the mound. This trench has now been refilled.
Although the barrow south-west of Tangham Cottages is known to have suffered limited damage by the digging of a trench in recent years, the scale of disturbance is small in relation to the monument as a whole, which retains considerable archaeological information. Evidence of the manner in which the barrow was constructed and used, of the duration of its use, and also of the local environment, prior to and at the time of its construction, will survive in the mound itself, in the soils buried beneath the mound and in the fill of the surrounding ditch. The importance of this monument is enhanced by the fact that it is one of at least three barrows which survive within a distance of approximately 1km.'
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