The field boundaries within this area date to its enclosure in 1822 as a result of the 1819 Barnburgh-cum-Harlington enclosure act (English 1985). This area approximates to that of the former Barnburgh Common shown by Jefferys (1775). The area is within the floodplain of the River Dearne to the south and was marked by the OS as 'Liable to Flooding' until the repositioning of the river along a modern embanked channel between 1966 and 1983. The parish boundary along which the southern boundary of this polygon has been marked follows the old course - no longer visible on the ground due to its backfilling and over ploughing. Invisible legibility of former common boundaries as the surrounding common arable land was also resurveyed at this time. NB " .. There were also, until the inclosure, close to the village of Barnborough, three small tumuli on the common, now destroyed; and formerly there was another adjacent to the one discovered" (Hunter 1831, 61) and "at one time three mounds or barrows on Barnburgh Common near to the Crown Inn. Unfortunately, these were levelled under the Enclosure Act 130 years ago, and worse still, the work of levelling was carried out by unskilled hands… "(Large 1952, 2"