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Yon Barrow Round Barrow(s) Image © Mike Rowland 24/11/2008. Nearest Town: Bere Regis (3km WNW) OS Ref (GB):     SY86379295 / Sheet: 194 Latitude: 50° 44' 7.43" N Longitude:     2° 11' 35.4" W Added by formicaant Images (1) Fieldnotes (1) Miscellaneous (1) 0 discussions Start a topic Show  |  Hide Web searches for Yon Barrow Flickr Google Google Images MAGIC The Megalithic Portal Bing Stone Pages Streetmap.co.uk Wikipedia

- Sites within 20 km - - End Barrow (1.78km W) (1 post) Woodbury Hill (1.91km NW) (11 posts) Broomhill and Bere Wood (2.16km NNW) (2 posts) Warren Heath (2.27km SSW) (2 posts) Black Hill (2.81km W) (12 posts) Woolsbarrow (2.86km E) (10 posts) Stand Barrow (3.17km WNW) (1 post) Rawles Barrow (3.33km NNW) (1 post) Bolton's Barrow (3.45km NNW) (1 post) Bloxworth Down (3.57km NNE) (6 posts) Muddox Barrow (3.83km NW) (1 post) Throop Clump (3.9km WSW) (3 posts) Turner's Puddle Heath (3.98km WSW) (3 posts) Dead Woman's Stone (4.36km WSW) (1 post) Hawke Barrow (4.4km NW) (1 post) Cold Barrow (4.57km ENE) (1 post) Double Barrow (4.84km W) (4 posts) Bere Down (5.48km WNW) (8 posts) Roke Down (5.63km WNW) (3 posts) Tolpuddle Ball (5.82km W) (2 posts) The White Barrow (5.92km NE) (1 post) The Seven Barrows (6.42km ESE) (8 posts) Cowleaze Barrows (6.45km WNW) (3 posts) Bulbury Camp (6.53km ENE) (3 posts) Weatherby Castle (6.6km W) (25 posts) Worgret Heath Earthworks (6.82km SE) (1 post) Worgret Heath (6.85km ESE) (8 posts) Heather Cottage (7.28km SW) (3 posts) Pallington Clump (7.3km WSW) (14 posts) Baylea Farm Barrow (7.36km SSE) (5 posts) Woodman's Cross (7.41km S) (3 posts) Deverel Barrow (7.51km WNW) (22 posts) Whitcombe Vale (7.99km SW) (4 posts) Old Knowle (8.25km SW) (11 posts) Coombe Heath (8.44km S) (11 posts) Bestwall Quarry (8.44km ESE) (2 posts) Windmill Barrow (8.74km NE) (1 post) Blacknoll Hill (8.78km SW) (8 posts) Warehan Logboat (8.93km ESE) (1 post) Povington Heath twin-barrow (8.98km SSE) (1 post) Drove Hill (9.01km SW) (5 posts) Five Barrow Hill (9.03km SSE) (5 posts) Tadnoll Barrow (9.04km SW) (4 posts) King's Barrow (9.16km ESE) (2 posts) Three Lords Barrow (9.64km SE) (1 post) Tinker's Barrow (9.86km WSW) (1 post) Henbury Barrow (9.98km ENE) (1 post) Stoborough Heath Barrow (10.09km ESE) (1 post) Spetisbury Rings (10.39km NNE) (19 posts) Drinking Barrow (10.72km SE) (1 post) Hyde Hill Barrows (Purbeck) (10.72km ESE) (1 post) Icen Barrow (10.79km ESE) (1 post) Creech Heath Barrows (10.83km ESE) (1 post) Povington Barrow (10.94km SSE) (1 post) Thorn Barrow (11.03km SSE) (4 posts) Shapwick Barrow (11.07km NE) (3 posts) Water Barrows (11.24km SSE) (1 post) Ferny Barrows (11.35km SSE) (5 posts) Three Barrows (11.38km ESE) (3 posts) Five Marys (11.42km SW) (14 posts) Arne Hill Barrow (11.55km E) (1 post) Chaldon Herring (11.72km SW) (3 posts) Puddletown Forest (11.93km WSW) (3 posts) Boswell's Plantation (11.93km WSW) (3 posts) Creech Barrow (11.95km SE) (3 posts) Huck Barrow (12.25km WSW) (4 posts) Stone Hill Down (12.35km SE) (4 posts) Lord's Barrow (12.37km SW) (5 posts) Flower's Barrow (12.44km SSE) (45 posts) Bush Barrow (Lulworth) (12.7km SSW) (4 posts) Bindon Hill (12.96km S) (4 posts) The Rainbarrows (12.96km WSW) (12 posts) Round Pound (13.04km SSW) (4 posts) Straw Barrow (13.1km NE) (2 posts) Owermoigne Down (13.3km SW) (8 posts) Knowle Hill (13.38km ESE) (6 posts) Hambury Tout (13.54km SSW) (4 posts) Wardstone Barrow (13.56km 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This barrow took me some time to find, three trips in all. It is in Grinsell's Dorset barrows where it is described as "large", suggesting he couldn't find it either. I'm not surprised as the barrow is in a large plantation of conifers and appears to have been cleared fairly recently. It has an external ditch about 2 metres wide and the vestiges of a bank. There were several badger setts showing recent footprints on the north side. The forestry commission have marked the site by placing angle topped wooden posts at the four cardinal points, I assume this is a protective measure. M.A.G.I.C. gives its dimensions as 15m in diameter by 2.45m in height and say it is built from turf,earth and sand. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by formicaant 24th November 2008ce Edited 24th November 2008ce

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Yon Barrow Details of barrow on Pastscape A bowl barrow with a mound composed of earth, sand and turf, with maximum dimensions of 15m in diameter and c2.45m in height. The mound is surrounded by a quarry ditch which is visible as an earthwork. (SY 86379294) Yon Barrow (Tumulus) (NR) (1) A large ditched bowl tumulus. No other detail given, apart from height of 10 ft. (2) This barrow has a diameter of 16.0 metres and a height of 3.1 metres. A surrounding ditch has an average width of 2.5 metres and an average depth of 0.4 metres. It has a pointed top and has no trace of mutilation. Covered with heather and young coniferous trees. A bowl barrow. (3) SY 86379294. Yon barrow (Yarn Barrow, 1777) is a ditched bowl, 45ft. diameter and 8ft. high on Lockyer's Hill now planted with conifers. (4) Yon Barrow (name not confirmed), remains as described and measured by Auth (3); there are slight indications of an excavation on the east side. See ground photograph. Revised at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (5) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE TEXT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date) OS 6" 1902 ( 2) General reference Grinsell LV Dorset Barrows Ms 1935-54 ( 3) Field Investigators Comments F1 JR 15-SEP-52 ( 4) General reference RCHM Dorset 2 pt 3 1970 436 No 73 ( 5) Field Investigators Comments F2 NJA 30-MAR-81 ( 6) General reference English Heritage Schedule Entry 13/11/1996 Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Chance 9th March 2012ce