A bank barrow, sometimes referred to as a barrow-bank, ridge barrow, or ridge mound, is a type of tumulus first identified by O.G.S. Crawford in 1938. Burial of Oleg of Novgorod in a tumulus in 912. ... Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford (1886 - November 28, 1957) was a pioneer in the use of aerial photographs for deepening archaelogical understanding of the landscape. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In the United Kingdom, they take the form of a long, sinuous, parallel-sided mound, approximately uniform in height and width along its length, and usually flanked by ditches on either side. They may be the result of a single phase of construction, or be the result of the addition of one or more linear extensions to the bank of a pre-existing barrow. Although burials have been found within the mound, no burial chambers as such have been identified in bank barrows. These ancient monuments are of middle Neolithic date. The Neolithic, (Greek neos=new, lithos=stone, or New Stone Age) was a period in the development of human technology that is traditionally the last part of the Stone Age. ...

There exist fewer than 10 bank barrows in the United Kingdom: Examples may be found at Maiden Castle, Dorset, and Long Low, Wetton, Staffordshire. Maiden Castle from the north Maiden Castle is a hill fort, mostly dating from the Iron Age, situated 2 miles south of Dorchester, in Dorset, England. ... Long Low is a Neolithic and Bronze Age site in the English county of Staffordshire. ... Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. ...

External link

• Bank Barrows monument class description