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Image of Big Wood (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by formicaant

The most easterly of the group from the road, looking north west.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 03/06/10
Image of Big Wood (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by formicaant

A large bowl barrow from the Winterbourne Abbas to Portesham road.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 03/06/10
Image of Big Wood (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by formicaant

The huge pond barrow in the foreground with the round barrow in the woods.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 09/02/2008.
Image of Big Wood (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by formicaant

The middle of three barrows in the field, in the background is a twin barrow and a single one.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 09/02/2008.
Image of Big Wood (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by formicaant

Part of the big wood group seen from the Sheep Down long barrow.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 08/02/2008.

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Big Wood

This is a nice set of five bowl and one very large pond barrow. The round barrows increase in size as you move east along the footpath. Three of them are in the field to the south of the wood. The barrow in the wood is to the immediate north of the pond barrow and appears to mirror it. This is the same as the pond barrow at Came Woods, is this a local thing or does this occur elsewhere?
To the immediate south of these barrows are another set of four which includes a double bowl barrow.
The pond barrow is 65 feet in diameter and 1 1/2 feet deep. The biggest bowl barrow is 30 feet across and 10 feet tall.

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