Black Hill

Also known as:
Hundred Barrow
Nearest town:
Bere Regis (1km N)
OS reference:
SY838941
OS sheet:
194
Latitude:
50° 44' 44.42 N
Longitude:
2° 13' 46.7 W
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Images

Image of Black Hill (Round Barrow(s)) by formicaant

A stitched together photo of the bell barrow.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 01/07/09
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formicaant Jul 1, 2009
Image of Black Hill (Round Barrow(s)) by formicaant

The western half of the bell barrow on Black hill clump.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 13/07/2008
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formicaant Jul 13, 2008
Image of Black Hill (Round Barrow(s)) by formicaant

The stone as it is seen from the footpath.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 08/10/2007.
formicaant
formicaant Oct 8, 2007
Image of Black Hill (Round Barrow(s)) by formicaant

This sarsen is about 3 1/2 feet in height and sits on a small, low round barrow.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 08/10/2007.
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formicaant Oct 8, 2007

Articles

Black Hill

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formicaant Jul 14, 2008

Another visit to this barrow cemetery, this time with more success in terms of finding the mounds on it. I found another five bowl types and a bell barrow.
Four of the bowl barrows were strung out along a ridge at the southern edge of the site and were very overgrown. All appeared in good condition and were on the smaller end of the scale.
The most westerly was close to the first barrow I found last time and appeared to be the largest on the hilltop.
The bell barrow is lower down the hill, to the east of the main group and is behind a large modern reservoir. It is in reasonable condition with a wide berm and part of the outer bank is visible on the northern edge. This barrow is surrounded by trees and is difficult to get a decent photo of as you have to get very close to it.

Black Hill

formicaant
formicaant Oct 8, 2007

This group of barrows sit on top of a hill on heathland south west of the village of Bere Regis. From it can be seen the nearby hillfort of Woodbury Castle to the east. Magic show nine barows on this site, on this visit I could only see two. The more westerly of them was a low bowl covered in bracken.
The most curious was a low round shape with a large sarsen on top of it. I haven’t seen this listed anywhere else, this stone is not local, this is heathland with sand and gravel pits on it. Also it’s on top of a hill, so someone had to lug it up here. I’m really not sure if this is ancient or not, caution is needed and more information/research is necessary to find out if this stone is modern or a genuine megalith. I have seen this stone refered to as the “Devil’s stone” and it was reputed to have been 11 feet in height in the past.

Miscellaneous

Black Hill
Round Barrow(s)
Chance
Chance May 24, 2014

Details of Hundred Barrow on Pastscape

(SY 8446 9377) Hundred Barrow (Tumulus) (NR) (1)
This barrow has a diameter of 18.0 metres and a height of 2.6 metres. It has no surrounding ditch and is covered with thorn bushes, brambles and ferns. No visible trace of mutilation. A bowl barrow. (3) SY 8446 9378. Hundred Barrow, bowl barrow, 58ft diameter and 7ft high damaged by rabbits on summit of small spur. (4) Hundred Barrow was the meeting place of the old Domesday hundred of Bere. In the 12th century, a smaller hundred named after the barrow, i.e. Barrow (or Hundreds Barrow) was created out of the original Bere hundred. (5)

Miscellaneous

Black Hill
Round Barrow(s)
Chance
Chance Mar 9, 2012

Details of barrow on Pastscape

Bronze Age bowl barrow reused as the the meeting place of the Domesday Hundreds of Bere. It is situated on a spur overlooking the Bere Valley to the east. The monument concists of a mound 16m in diameter and 2.2m high, it is surounded by an infilled ditch 1.5m wide.

(SY 8446 9377) Hundred Barrow (Tumulus) (NR) (1)
Large bowl barrow, no details. (2)
This barrow has a diameter of 18.0 metres and a height of 2.6 metres. It has no surrounding ditch and is covered with thorn bushes, brambles and ferns. No visible trace of mutilation. A bowl barrow. (3)
SY 8446 9378. Hundred Barrow, bowl barrow, 58ft diameter and 7ft high damaged by rabbits on summit of small spur. (4)
Hundred Barrow was the meeting place of the old Domesday hundred of Bere. In the 12th century, a smaller hundred named after the barrow, i.e. Barrow (or Hundreds Barrow) was created out of the original Bere hundred. (5)
SY 8446 9377. Hundred Barrow. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (6)

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SOURCE TEXT
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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date) OS 6” 1902.
( 2) General reference Dorset Barrows Ms 1935-54 (L V Grinsell)
( 3) Field Investigators Comments F1 JR 15-SEP-52
( 4) Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England) 1970 An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset. Volume two : south-east [in three parts] pt 3, No. 76. Page(s)436
( 5) English Place-Name Society : the survey of English place-names [county volumes] Dorset 1, 1977 (A D Mills) Page(s)278, 288
( 6) Field Investigators Comments F2 JGB 06-FEB-81
( 7) General reference English Heritage Schedule Entry 17/4/1997

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