Pimperne

Also known as:
Monument No. 210178
Nearest town:
Blandford Forum (6km SW)
OS reference:
ST917105
OS sheet:
195
Latitude:
50° 53' 35.99 N
Longitude:
2° 7' 4.89 W
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Images

Image of Pimperne (Long Barrow) by juamei

Open Source Environment agency LIDAR

Image credit: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015.
juamei
juamei Jan 24, 2016
Image of Pimperne (Long Barrow) by texlahoma

Taken from the map outside Pimperne village hall, the walk to the long barrow from here takes you across some very fine Dorset countryside. Also on here is the intriguingly named Rusty Barrow lane, which has to be worth a closer look.

Image credit: texlahoma
texlahoma
texlahoma Sep 23, 2012
Image of Pimperne (Long Barrow) by formicaant

The eastern end of the long barrow from the footpath.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 17/10/2007.
formicaant
formicaant Oct 17, 2007
Image of Pimperne (Long Barrow) by formicaant

Looking west along the full length of the barrow.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 17/10/2007.
formicaant
formicaant Oct 17, 2007
Image of Pimperne (Long Barrow) by formicaant

A saucer type barrow, about 100 yards east of the long barrow.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 17/10/2007.
formicaant
formicaant Oct 17, 2007

Articles

Pimperne

texlahoma
texlahoma Feb 13, 2012

This is a huge long barrow just off the A354 between Blandford Forum and Salisbury. The best place to park is in the lay by when heading North towards Salisbury. The lay by is almost opposite the turning into Blandford camp on the other side of the road.

From the lay by you can already see the long barrow and it’s just a very short walk past the bowl barrow. There is no longer any sign of the other barrows and the “British settlement” as drawn by R. Hippisley Cox in his green roads of England book.

The magnificence of Pimperne long barrow is all the more special as it’s the best preserved part of what was obviously once such a rich landscape of monuments.

Race Down long barrow is located just to the North East of here on the edge of the army camp across the road.

Pimperne

formicaant
formicaant Oct 17, 2007

This is a truly huge earth work. It is higher than some hillfort ramparts I’ve seen and the northern ditch is still at least a metre deep. The southern ditch is less evident and may be the footpath itself.
There is a bowl type barrow with a still visible outer ditch about two hundred yards east of the long barrow.

Miscellaneous

Pimperne
Long Barrow
Chance
Chance Apr 2, 2016

(24) Pimperne Long Barrow (91751050), one of the finest surviving burial mounds in Wessex, lies along the boundary with Pimperne on the summit of a Chalk ridge, at an altitude of 370 ft. above O.D. Aligned from N.N.W. to S.S.E., the mound is parallel-sided, 330 ft. long, 65 ft. wide and up to 9 ft. high. On the E. it is flanked by a berm up to 10 ft. wide and by a ditch 40 ft. across, and up to 4 ft. deep. On the W. side there are traces of a narrow berm at the N. and S. ends, and of a ditch narrower and shallower than that on the E. (Sumner, Cranborne Chase 75–6 and pl. xlvi.)

british-history.ac.uk/rchme/dorset/vol4/pp96-101#h3-0004

Miscellaneous

Pimperne
Long Barrow
Chance
Chance Apr 2, 2016

Details of Long Barrow on Pastscape

(ST 91751049) Pimperne Long Barrow (NR). (1)
PIMPERNE LONG BARROW (91751050), one of the finest surviving burial mounds in Wessex, lies along the boundary with Pimperne on the summit of a Chalk ridge, at an altitude of 370 ft. above O.D. Aligned from N.N.W. to S.S.E., the mound is parallel-sided, 330 ft. long, 65 ft. wide and up to 9 ft. high. On the E. it is flanked by a berm up to 10 ft. wide and by a ditch 40 ft. across, and up to 4 ft. deep. On the W. side there are traces of a narrow berm at the N. and S. ends, and of a ditch narrower and shallower than that on the E. (2)

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