THE MONUMENT INCLUDES THE BURIED REMAINS OF A LONG BARROW LOCATED ON THE SOUTH FACING SLOPE OF THE VALLEY OF A TRIBUTARY OF THE RIVER LYMN. ALTHOUGH IT CANNOT BE SEEN ON THE GROUND, THE MONUMENT IS CLEARLY VISIBLE AS A CROPMARK ON APS. THE CROPMARK REPRESENTS A BURIED ELONGATED WEDGE-SHAPED ENCLOSURE MEASURING C.50 M BY 20 M, ALIGNED N-S AND DELINEATED BY AN INFILLED, UNBROKEN DITCH. THE NORTHERN END IS ROUNDED, WITH STRAIGHT SIDES TAPERING TO A MORE RECTANGULAR SOUTHERN END. THIS DITCH FORM IS THOUGHT TO REPRESENT THE SIMPLER TYPE OF LINCOLNSHIRE LONG BARROW WHICH CONSISTED OF AN AREA SET ASIDE FOR MORTUARY ACTIVITIES AND DEFINED BY A DITCH WHICH MAY HAVE SUPPORTED A PALISADE AND FACADE FOR AN ARRANGEMENT OF POSTS. STRUCTURES AND DEPOSITS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE ACTIVITIES WILL SURVIVE AS BURIED FEATURES WITHIN THE ENCLOSURE. WHEN THE FUNERARY RITUALS WERE COMPLETED, THE ENCLOSURE WOULD HAVE BEEN COVERED WITH SCRAPED EARTH RATHER THAN THE LARGE MOUND WHICH CHARACTERISES THE ELABORATED FORM OF LINCOLNSHIRE LONG BARROW THE MONUMENT IS ONE OF A NUMBER OF LONG BARROWS IN THE AREA, WHICH INCLUDES THE SKENDLEBY GROUP C.1KM TO THE SOUTH, AND DEADMEN'S GRAVES AT A SIMILAR DISTANCE TO THE EAST. THESE MONUMENTS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH WATERWAYS AND WITH THE BLUESTONE HEATH ROAD WHICH IS THOUGHT TO HAVE ORIGINATED AS A PREHISTORIC TRACKWAY AND WHICH WAS OVERLAIN BY A ROMAN ROAD. {1}, LENGTH 60M, WIDTH 30M, HTM 70M