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The Harpstone (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Miscellaneous |
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Details of Stone on Pastscape (SY 92168057) Stone (NR) (1) Known as the 'Harp Stone', by which name it should be described on OS plans. (2) The Harp Stone (NR) (3) The Harpstone, a limestone monolith, stands on the bank of a small stream just inside the west edge of Hurpston Coppice. It is 7 1/4 feet high with a jagged and uneven top and has a maximum width of 3 3/4 feet east-west by 3 feet north-south. The four faces are largely disfigured by vertical grooves and hollows, the result of weathering. Its origin is unknown. The place-name 'Herpston' (1340) may refer to the stone, which stands on the bank between Herpston and Hyde manors and flanks the ancient road from Creech to Kimmeridge. (4) SY 921805. The Harp Stone. Scheduled 735. (5) The Harp Stone, an undated monolith, probably ancient. Scheduled. (6) The Harp Stone, a weather-worn standing stone, as described. Published 1:2500 survey correct. (7) |
Posted by Chance23rd August 2015ce |
Corfe Castle (Sacred Hill) — Links |
Corfe Castle sunrise timelapse - FlickrI came across this and I think it is just lovely. Flickr (Philip Male) Corfe Castle sunrise timelapse video |
Posted by thelonious31st December 2014ce |
Rempstone Stone Circle — Images (click to view fullsize) |
 
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Posted by juamei16th August 2014ce |
East Hill Barrow (Corfe Castle) (Round Barrow(s)) — Miscellaneous |
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Details of barrow on Pastscape (SY 96388237) Tumulus (NR) (1) Small bowl barrow. (2) This tumulus has a diameter of 11.0m. and a height of 0.6m. with no surrounding ditch.It is somewhat spread and is surmounted by numerous small stones. Bowl barrow. Not a cairn. (3) SY 96378237. Bowl barrow, 40ft diameter and 2ft high on spine of East Hill. Probably ploughed. (4) |
Posted by Chance 25th May 2014ce |
Corfe Common field system (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) — Miscellaneous |
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Details of field system on Pastscape An impressive prehistoric or Romano-British field system defined as 'Celtic' fields occupies the reasonably steep south and southwest-facing slopes across the whole of the common. The best-preserved area, comprising well-defined rectilinear plots is, centred at SY95758086 on the southern fringe of part of the barrow cemetery. Here small linked unenclosed square plots, resembling a chequerboard, with distinctive rounded corners and straight sides are formed from the material excavated out of the steep slope are anything up to 2m in height with back scarps up to 1.6m in height. There are no obvious inter-connecting ramps to the plots. Scattered patched of dense gorse and ground cover vegetation obscure parts of this extensive and impressive field system. The 'Celtic' fields extend across the lower, south-facing slopes and consequently are not as well defined with front scarps or 'risers' up to 0.8m high. These plots clearly respect the courses of the broad and natural shallow valleys which are formed by the action of spring sapping, by inturning along the line of the valley slope. |
Posted by Chance 25th May 2014ce |
Corfe Common (Round Barrow(s)) — Miscellaneous |
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Details of barrows on Pastscape A group of four Bronze Age bowl barrows on Corfe Common. All are extant as earthwork mounds, one possibly surrounded by a ditch. Signs of disturbance suggest that some excavation has occurred on at least one of the barrows in the past. A plain tripartite urn in the British Museum (accession number 1982.9-1.238) has been identified as coming either from one of these barrows or from one of the adjacent barrow groups (SY 98 SE 17 and 47). Scheduled. |
Posted by Chance 25th May 2014ce |
Thorny Barrow (Round Barrow(s)) — Miscellaneous |
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Details of barrow on Pastscape (SZ 01438210) Thorny Barrow (Tumulus) (NR) (1) Thorny Barrow, destroyed. Quarried away before 1939. (2) This mound has not been quarried away entirely, but fragmentary remains are still visible adjacent to a sand quarry; it is now impossible to give any measurement for these remains. This mound might possibly have been the result of a natural geological formation as seen in similar mounds in the proximity (see SZ 08 SW 11, 43 and 44). (3) SZ 01438210. Thorny Barrow, bowl (?)barrow, about 65ft diameter and about 8ft high, on the edge of a broad ridge but almost unrecognisable owing to the encroachment of a large sand pit. (5) |
Posted by Chance 25th May 2014ce |
Worgret Heath Earthworks (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) — Miscellaneous |
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Details of earthworks on Pastscape Linear earthworks comprising banks and ditches present on Worgret Heath and Wareham Common. These consist of two alignements whigh meet at a central point. Each has a pair of banks 7 to 12 metres wide and 0.2 to 0.4 metres high which flank a pair of ditches 4 to 5 metres wide. These are now visible as a single depression between the banks. The southern earthwork has been disturbed by sand and gravel extraction and truncated by road. Scheduled. |
Posted by Chance 25th May 2014ce |
Worgret Heath (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) — Miscellaneous |
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Details of barrows on Pastscape ('A'-SY 90128737; 'B' - SY 90118733) Tumuli (NR) (two shown) (1) 'A' Dimensions: Diam 9 yards. Height 3ft undisturbed. 'B' Dimensions: Diam 17 yards. Height 5ft. Flat topped shallow surrounding ditch. (2) 'A' Diameter 6.5 metres; height 0.8 metres. No sign of a berm, but three trenches have been dug in what appears to be an unsurveyable ditch. No other sign of mutilation. Probably a bowl barrow. 'B' Diameter 14.0 metres. Height 1.8 metres. A surrounding ditch has an average depth of 0.3m. and width of 1.3 metres. This has been mutilated on the W side by a land drainage trench. No berm visible. A bowl barrow. (3) |
Posted by Chance 25th May 2014ce |
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