Scheduled Ancient Monument: BOWL BARROW IN LANCASTER DRIVE, MARTLESHAM HEATH (21270)

The monument includes a bowl barrow situated on the southern edge of a modern housing development on what was formerly heathland. The barrow is visible as an earthen mound which is encircled by a buried ditch. The mound covers a circular area with a diameter of 24m and was recorded in 1982 as standing to a maximum height of 1.08m. Over the top and the north side of the barrow, this has been increased to between 1.2m and 1.25m by the addition of a layer of topsoil approximately 0.15m thick. The barrow is crossed east-west by a field boundary and the southern part of the mound has been spread by ploughing and reduced to a maximum height of approximately 0.4m. The surrounding ditch, from which earth was dug and used during construction of the mound, was at one time marked by a slight depression in the ground surface. It has now become completely filled, but survives as a buried feature approximately 3m wide. The post and rail fence which crosses the monument is excluded from the scheduling although the ground beneath is included.