This complex of monuments is made up of a small barrow cemetery and a number of other earthworks. The entire field in which the monuments were located was surveyed topographically (3.72 hectares) with detailed geophysical surveys in selected areas. Excavation was carried out at two sites "A" and "C".
Site A was a habitation site, dating to the Middle Bronze Age. The people living there were farmers, keeping cattle, sheep and pigs and growing crops, which appear to have been especially important in the initial phase of occupation of the site. The site itself is oval in plan, measuring 60m by 50m and is enclosed by a double ditch which appears to have been dug in three stages. Traces of at least ten structures came to light, some rectangular, others circular, and not all in use at the same time. The inner ditch had a broad U-shaped profile 2m across at the top, 70 - 90cm in width at the base and 1.1m deep. The finds came mainly from the ditches and consisted largely of pottery, although other artifacts in the form of struck flint and chert (a hard stone) were also found. The inhabitants of the site had used a lot of wood for different things and these turned up in large quantities in the inner ditch where they had presumably been discarded.
While Site A was clearly domestic in nature, some unresolved questions remain as to the function of Site C. This is a circular earthwork about 40m in diameter, enclosed by a ditch with a broad U-shaped profile, 2.9m in width. Nine phases of activity were recorded at this site, beginning during the Middle Bronze Age but it was also in use during the Late Bronze Age, the Iron Age, Early Christian times and Medieval times. A barrow was dug into the complex at some stage in the past and the indications are that Site C filled a largely ritual function throughout most of its life, perhaps with short-term periods of occupation over a number of seasons.
The final report was published in 2008 (see publications)
