Ridge Hill Round Barrow(s) View all content for Ridge Hill

Visited 13.10.14 Directions: Next to a minor road off the A352 to the north of Cerne Abbas / west of Buckland Newton. There is very little to see. I could only spot one of the barrows. Approximately 0.3m high x 5m across. Don't bother. E.H. state: The monument includes two bowl barrows aligned broadly NNW-SSE on the crest of Ridge Hill. Both barrows have been reduced in size by past ploughing. The northern barrow has a mound, now elongated but formerly 8m in diameter, and 0.5m high. The second barrow, approximately 30m to the south west, is now visible only as a slight rise in the ground surface but was formerly 13m in diameter and 0.6m high. Both mounds are surrounded by quarry ditches from which material to construct them was derived. These have become infilled over the years and now survive as buried features approximately 2m wide. The barrows lie within a wider area of prehistoric field system which is not included in the scheduling. All fence posts are excluded from the scheduling, although the ground beneath these features is included.

Posted by CARL 20th October 2014ce

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