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phil Dec 2, 2002 18:56:57
Replying to juamei

Yeah,
I saw it marked on the map but it looked like it was in someones back garden. After reading Rob Gillespie's fieldnotes on HH can I take it that it is possible to reach it?

It was last picture of the day so didn't have time to explore. Had a great day on the whole though exploring around the Dorchester area managed to pack in Maumbury Rings (fantastic!) and some barrow cemeterys one at Came Down and another at Came Woods.

I'm told that one of the barrows at Came woods is a pond barrow. I found a large mound covered in trees with a hollow on top and another close by a very deep hollow with a dead car in the bottom.

would you know if the deep one was a pond barrow or are pond barrows hollows on top of mounds?

"Dead car barrow at Came Woods"
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/image.php?image_id=9436

Phil

J juamei
juamei Dec 3, 2002 09:45:23
Replying to phil

I've never been to that bunch a barrows (and didn't know they were there), though I'm back in Dorset for Xmas and I'm taking a few extra days to try and see things I havn't seen yet... No idea about pond barrows, soz..

Re. the Conquor Barrow.. I climbed over a barbed wire fence at the bottom of the housing estate (to the left of your picture) and walked up the side of the field coating myself in mud/clay. Assuming the entire mound is the barrow (I wasn't quite sure), it seems to be 80% in an accessable fanced enclosure (it has a gateish) & 20% in peoples back gardens.

Do you know what it is exactly? Is it actually a barrow or just a random neolithic mound?