The sixth barrow uncovered during the Thanet Earth excavations was located lay on a northward spur of slightly higher ground between two dry valleys at 24m OD. It consisted of a complete ring-ditch approximately 21m in diameter.

This barrow unfortunately does not provide much material for further analysis or comparison, beyond its size and probable date there was no dating evidence from the primary ditch fills and no related burials. Although not therefore closely dated, the form and scale of the barrow is highly indicative of their early Bronze Age origin, this is also suggested by the disposition of certain elements of a middle Bronze Age field system, which seem to respect it. The lack of any burial associated with this monument is not necessarily surprising, and although it has been suggested that some barrows were never, or not originally used for burial, perhaps arenas for ceremonial activities, shrines or cenotaphs, it is possible that the burial was situated in an elevation position In the mound and may have been removed when the mound was levelled. It is however almost certain that it once had a mound, suggested by ditch infill profiles and the position of Roman enclosure ditches which cut into its silted up ditches, but stopped short of the central area, indicating that they respected the position of a still extant if slighted, barrow mound. (information summarised from source) (1)

<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2023, Beneath the Seamark: 6000 Years of an Islands History (Monograph). SKE55405.