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The Bronze Age saw the introduction
of metal-working. A hoard of bronze axes was found in Foy
parish in the 18th century but otherwise finds are sparse in
this area.
The classic Bronze Age funerary
monument is the round barrow. Although no standing barrows
survive in the 12 parishes of the study, several ring-ditches
exist. After a barrow has been flattened (usually for
agricultural purposes) the circular ditch which surrounded it,
and from which the earth was excavated to build it, remains.
These are often visible as circular crop-marks known as
'ring-ditches'.
When we began the project, ring ditches are known in Brampton
Abbots, Fownhope and Brockhampton parishes. The project has
since discovered these features in the parishes of Foy and
Hentland.
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