Donington
on Bain Bronze Age Bowl Barrow Donington on Bain, Lincolnshire OS
Map Ref TF25938294
OS Maps - Landranger 122 (Skegness & Horncastle), Explorer 282 (Lincolnshire
Wolds North)
The ploughed barrow is the
low mound of earth beyond the grass.
Although there is a tumulus marked
on the Ordnance Survey map in this area, there is very little to see on
the ground. In fact a wide low slightly raised area of soil is the only
evidence of the Bronze Agebowl barrow that once stood here - it was originally recorded
as being about 1.5 metres tall but ploughing has nearly destroyed it. What
is left still covers a diameter of about 35 metres and it is believed that
the barrow once also had an encircling ditch but this is now totally silted
up. It stands just to the west of the Bluestone Heath Road - a prehistoric
trackway.
Further to the west are the dismantled radio dishes from the Stenigot NATO
communication station which formed part of the 'Ace High' microwave relay
network from the 1950's to 1980's, and also a massive second world war 'Chain
Home' radio transmitter mast.
