Round Barrow Earthwork

Icklingham, King's Forest, Suffolk

Unfortunately, I do not presently have a specific name for this one, but rest assured that locally it will be something ending in Hill. It is situated at British National Grid Reference (OS) TL 7872 7322, directly straddling the boundary line between King's Forest and the adjacent arable farmland. It is roughly a 35-minute walk from the West Stow Country Park car park.

The barrow is quite worn down by centuries of weathering and, no doubt, historic plough action. This photograph strongly emphasizes a point I keep making: that prehistoric barrows have frequently been reused as prominent boundary markers in later ages. Even in their own era, I suspect they lay well outside the immediate settlement areas – positioned deliberately on high ridges where they could be seen dominating the horizon from a great distance.