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The Romano-British barrow is just off to the right.

Thought to be a Roman burial barrow, dated 100-120 AD. The mound was excavated in 1912 and an entrance passage built.In the centre was a small burial chamber built of Roman bricks capped by septaria (clay nodules) and inside was a lead box with a wooden lid. The box contained an urn of green glass containing cremated remains. The barrow is also known as Mersea Mound, Mersea Mount or Grim's Hoe.

A Roman barrow, a scheduled Ancient Monument.

Ancient burial mound excavated in 1912 by Mr Samuel Hazzledine Warren http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016787806800295 . Buried below the mound was a Glass funerary urn containing cremated bones of a man held in a lead casket and surrounded by a sealed roman brick tomb probably dating from the 2nd Century AD. The contents were moved to Colchester Museum and were held there for a century before being loaned to Mersea Island Museum http://www.merseamuseum.org.uk/ during the refurbishment of Colchester Castle. Warren left the opened brick tomb in place with the intention of removing it at a later date. Sadly over the ensuing years when the mound was used as a chicken run and the excavation used as a food store the Roman Bricks were lost. Take a look inside at Image and also Image

This is the inner chamber of Image the glass vessel is a modern jar about the size of the funerary jar currently residing in Mersea Museum http://www.merseamuseum.org.uk/ You can see a picture of the real one at www.merseamuseum.org.uk/mmphoto.php?pid=MOR_129_003&hit=27&tot=47&typ=cat&syn=all&cat=433,222,434 . You can learly see the layers of soil that were brought to the site by the builders of the monument. Behind the jar is a tile, all that remains of the brick tomb http://www.merseamuseum.org.uk/mmphoto.php?pid=MOR_129_002&hit=26&tot=47&typ=cat&syn=all&cat=433,222,434 you can also take a look Image

This is the "roof" of the Image The chimney is an air shaft installed a long time after the 1912 excavation. After the excavation was concluded a concrete tunnel was constructed to the burial chamber see Image and the trench was filled in to restore the shape of the mound.

Marked on maps as "Tumulus" and located at Barrow Hill, Mersea Island. The mound was most likely made during the Roman era around 100AD. The tunnel into it was made during a detailed archaeological excavation in 1912. In the very centre of the mound an impressive bowl-shaped glass vessel was discovered in a lead box. It contained burnt human remains.

The tunnel into the ancient burial mound was made in 1912 during an archeological excavation which unearthed a magnificent glass vessel from the Roman era. It contained burnt human remains. The tunnel appears to have been reinforced for modern domestic use.