NHER 3742 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Bronze Age bowl barrow known as Hill of Peace

1957. Visit. Tumulus 91m (100 yards) west of Icknield Way.
Bones discovered in rabbiting. Called Hill of Peace according to [1]. Partly destroyed 1892, but still standing about 90cm (3 feet) high in 1957.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

Marked on (S1).

1976. Visit.
39m diameter, 50cm high, ploughed.
A. J. Lawson (NAU), 16 March 1976.

April 1981. Visit.
(S2) states that local people call it the soldiers burial ground. The local constable was said to have found 'Roman remains' on it. (S3) stated that a coin of Hadrian around 120 AD was found on it. A windmill once stood here. (S4) states barrow deeply ploughed, surrounding ditch visible as soilmark. Few sherds of medieval green glazed ware on surface.
See (S5).
E. Rose (NAU), 7 April 1981.

[2] can find no references to any windmill ever standing here.
E. Rose (NAU), 4 February 1982.

Suggests confusion with site NHER 15000.
E. Rose (NAU).

1983 and 1988. Visit.
Now under pasture.
J. Wymer (NAU) 1988.

22 July 1993. NLA air photography.
Site visible as a cropmark only.
M. Brennand (NLA), 8 February 2001.

September 2000.
Scheduled. Ancient Monument Number: 30584.
D. Gurney (NLA), 19 October 2000.

17 November 2003. Visit.
In Doctor's Wood to north pits probably from clay extraction related to nearby old brickworks are visible.
H. Paterson (A&E), 17 November 2003.