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Grimstone Down Barrows

Round Barrow(s)

Nearest Town:Dorchester (7km SE)
OS Ref (GB):   SY64619560 / Sheet: 194
Latitude:50° 45' 29.91" N
Longitude:   2° 30' 6.47" W

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Details of one barrow on Pastscape - Monument No. 1457331

A Bronze Age bowl barrow on Grimstone Down. It is part of a barrow cemetery comprising eight barrows and survives as an elongated earthwork measuring 17 metres northeast-southwest by 12.8 metres northwest to southeast and about 1.6 metres high. The barrow is listed as Stratton Number 4 by Grinsell (1959), Barrow Number 15a by RCHME (1952) and as Barrow F by the Ordnance Survey.
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29th May 2014ce

Details of one barrow on Pastscape - Monument No. 453207

A Bronze Age barrow, possibly a bowl barrow, on Grimstone Down. It is part of a barrow cemetery comprising eight barrows and survives as an earthwork up to 0.4 metres high, surrounded by a ditch 2 metres wide by 0.2 metres deep. The barrow is listed as Barrow Number 15b by RCHME (1952) and as Barrow H by the Ordnance Survey. It was not recorded by Grinsell (1959).
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29th May 2014ce