EDO6387 - Group of four Bronze Age Burial Mounds on Golden Cap; geophysical survey 2011

Earth Resistivity and Fluxgate Gradiometer surveys were carried out across a linear group of four Bronze Age burial mounds. The survey was planned in advance of an archaeological excavation to record the barrows before they were lost through coastal erosion. The base line of the survey was 5m from the NW edge of the line of barrows, with four grid squares containing a barrow in each. The information collected was tested by excavation. Three barrows were mounds of chert rubble up to 1.7m high while one (113010) was an earthen mound. There was no evidence for quarry ditches or funerary pits. A discrete scatter of worked flint was found below the NE edge of barrow 113009 including scrapers and an arrowhead. The survey provided an indication of the extent of the Napoleonic signal station in use between 1798 and 1814 and its impact on the condition of the barrows which seem to have been used as shelters for signal station crews.