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[SY59629181] TUMULUS [OE] (1) A cairn on grass. June 1954. Diameter 20 paces, height 3 1/2 ft. (2)
A flinty grass covered bowl barrow with no visible ditch Diameter 19.0m, height 1.2m. (3)

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(’A’ – SY 63918703; ‘B’ – SY 64088721) Tumulus (NR) (twice). (1)
‘A’. Bowl barrow on Great Hill, the next spur to east of Shorn Hill. Diam 74ft, ht 9ft. Disturbed, with Ancient Field Group (SY 68 NW 37).
‘B’. Bowl barrow on crest of north east slope of Great Hill 270 yds north east of ‘A’. Diam 55 ft, ht 5 ft. (2-3)
‘A’ SY 63908703. Bowl barrow, diameter 24.0m., height 2.4m., in good condition. No visible ditch.
‘B’ SY 64088721. Bowl barrow, diameter 18.0m., height 2.0m., flat top of 5.0m. diameter. No visible ditch.
Neither barrow has been ploughed over.

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(Centred at SY 640885) Tumulus (NR) Tumuli (NR) (1) Three bowl barrows form a west-east line along the crest of Grove Hill about 1 mile north of the Ridgeway, though visible from it. All have been ploughed and are now of indefinite diameter,
though at least 70 ft. Two (’A’, ‘B’) were called ‘Sherf Barrows’ on I Taylor’s Estate Map of c 1770 when both lay in an area of former open fields and were surrounded by square enclosures (cf SY 68 NW 15).
‘A’ (63888849). Ht 2 1/2 ft.
‘B’ (63918849). Immediately adjacent on east-north-east of ‘A’. Ht 1 1/2 ft.
‘C’ (64128852). 230 yds east of ‘B’. Ht 4 ft. (2-3)
‘A’ SY 63878849. Bowl barrow, diameter 31.0m., height 1.3m.
‘B’ SY 63908849. Bowl barrow, diameter 29.0m. height 1.0m.
‘C’ SY 64118851. Bowl barrow, well-preserved, diameter 40.0m., height 1.8.
All are in arable, and none has any visible evidence of a ditch.

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A bowl barrow on the top of North Hill, 750 metres north east of Marsh Barn. The barrow has a mound which is 20 metres in diameter and 0.8 metres high. Surrounding the mound is a quarry ditch which has become infilled over the years but survives as a buried feature 3 metres wide. Scheduled.

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(SY 62769253) Long Barrow (NR) (1) A long barrow situated 320 yds north west of Hampton Plantation is 140ft long and appears to be wider towards the east; at a point 45ft from this end it is 60ft wide and 3ft high. Its axis is on a line of about 125o. The work has been much ploughed over and spread. (No 151 in OS Map of Neolithic Wessex). (2)
A long barrow orientated north west – south west is of flinty construction now grass covered. Its long axis measures 45.0m and its short axis 19.0m, with a height of 1.2m. No side ditches are visible but on the west side is a large circular depression, approx 20.0m in diameter and 1.7m deep which appears to be a natural subsidence. (3) SY 627925. Frampton long barrow listed by Ashbee. (4) SY 62769253. Long barrow, generally as described, but further reduced by ploughing; it now measures 38.0 by 16.0 metres with a maximum height of 0.8 metres. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (5)

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An Iron Age and Romano-British settlement. An Iron Age storage pit was found dating to the first quarter of the 1st century AD containing pottery and sling stones. Six crouched Roman burials were found and one of a child. Part of an oven and a probable hut base were excavated. Finds included pottery, three brooches, a bracelet, some counters and four 3rd to 4th century coins. A unique Carolingian silver coin was also discovered.

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(Group Centred SY 62439083) Tumuli [NR] (five shown) (1) ‘B’ SY 62309081. ‘C’ SY 62329088. ‘D’ SY 62389086. ‘E’ SY 62449084.
‘A’ This long barrow is orientated NW-SE; its long axis measures 46.0m, its short axis 27.0m. It is 0.4m high at the N end and 1.1m high at the S end. There are no visible side ditches, and the barrow is at present under the plough.
‘B’ A grass covered bowl barrow, diameter 11.0m, height 1.7m. Past ploughing has probably given the berm effect visible on the NW side and the top has been dug into.
‘C’ A grass covered bowl barrow, diameter 25.0m, height 2.4m. Hollow in top. ‘D’ and ‘E’. Two bowl barrows of average height 0.4m. Both are under the plough. (2) Group of five barrows on Pound Hill:
‘A’ -(Winterbourne Steepleton No 60) – SY 62529081. Ditched double bowl barrow with mounds 72ft and 45ft in diameter and 1
1/2ft and 1ft high respectively. Both were surrounded by a continuous hour-glass shaped ditch visible on air photograph (a). Now ploughed almost flat. Listed by Grinsell under ‘Long Barrows’ and also ‘Twin Bowl-Barrows’, the latter type he described as being the more probable.
‘B’ (Winterbourne Abbas No 53) – SY 62309082. Bowl barrow 34 ft diameter and 5 1/2 ft high. Disturbed.
‘C’ (Winterbourne Abbas No 54) SY 62329089. Bowl barrow 60ft diameter and 10 1/2ft high. Excavation hollow on top.
‘D’ (Winterbourne Steepleton No 58) SY 62399087. Bowl barrow about 60ft diameter and 2 ft high. Now ploughed almost flat.
‘E’ (Winterbourne Steepleton No 59) SY 62439085 (?) Ditched bowl barrow, about 70ft diameter and 1 1/2ft high. A circular soil-mark suggesting a ditch about 100ft in diameter appears on air photograph (a). (3,4)

A: SY 62539081. A mound, smoothed and reduced by ploughing, measuring approximately 35.0 by 20.0 metres and with a maximum height of 0.8 metres. It is oriented W.N.W. to E.S.E Classification as a twin bowl can be confirmed by the OS air photographs, which shows the cropmark of the hour-glass ditch, and the western barrow to have been 32 metres diameter overall, and the eastern one 26 metres in diameter.
B: SY 62309082. Bowl barrow, 11.5 by 10.5 metres and 1.7 metres high.
‘C’. SY 62329088. Bowl barrow, 22.0 by 19.0 metres, and 3.8 metres high.
‘B’ and ‘C’ have not been ploughed over.
‘D’. SY 62389086. Bowl barrow, diameter 22.0 metres approximately, height 0.1 to 0.6 metres. Ploughed down.
‘E’. SY 62469083. Bowl barrow, diameter 18.0 metres, approximately, height 1.0 metres. Ploughed down.
Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (7)
Two further barrows are recorded at SY 6243 9084, diameter 10-12m, and SY 6248 9082, similar dimensions, on Pound Hill. (The former appears to coincide with the position of ‘E’ as recorded by Auth 3) A flint axe, of a type rare in Wessex, and other flintwork, were found unstratified on the SE side of the second barrow. Their derivation is unknown. (8)
Two additional barrows are recorded by Grinsell at SY 6259 9087 (ca 70 ft across) and SY 6265 9085 (similar size). (9)

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(SY 63759235) Long Barrow (NR) (1) SY 63769234. A long barrow near Red Barn, orientated south-south-east/north-north-west is about 120ft long; the greatest width being towards the south-south-east where it measures 58ft and the height 3ft. There are no remains of ditches. OS Map of Neolithic Wessex No.152. (2,3) A grass and tree-covered long barrow, 50.0m long, 21.0m wide and 1.4m high in the south east which is the higher end; the western end merges gradually into the surrounding ground. (4)
SY 637923. Bradford Peverell Long Barrow 1 listed by Ashbee. (5) A long barrow, 54.0 metres long and 15.5 metres across, of which the ENE side is a distinct slope 8.0 metres long and 1.2 metres high at the North end, fading to 0.4 metres at the south end. The other side, visible for only 26.0 metres, is an ill-defined slope about 3.0 metres long and 0.3 metres high. There are no side ditches. The barrow, grass covered and in a thinned plantation, must have been bulldozed to some extent. Its size bears no resemblance to former records (2 to 4) and the current plan is unlike that published on the OS 25” 1959, which depicts a broad south-east end.

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(’A’ – SY 60688893) Tumulus (NR). (’B’ – SY 60688901; ‘C’ – SY 60718904; ‘D’ – SY 60758902; ‘E’ – SY 60868906) Tumuli (NR).
Five round barrows, including a double bowl and a pond barrow lie above apparent limit of ‘Celtic’ fields on a broad spur running North East from the Ridgeway at about 460 ft above OD.
‘A’ Bowl (60688893) on slight South East slope. diam 35 ft ht 2 1/2 ft Damaged by excavation.
‘B’ Pond barrow (60708901) 93 yds North North East of ‘A’ Central depression, diam 35 ft, depth 2 ft, surrounded by bank 10 ft to 12 ft wide and 5 ins high. Excavation by H G Wakefield for the commission in 1947-8 and by R J C Atkinson in 1950 showed that a pavement of flints gathered from the top-soil largely covered the depression. Beneath and around the pavement were thirty-five pits cut into the chalk subsoil, in some cases through the pavement. Seventeen pits contained Early Bronze Age urns, two held an urn and an inhumation, one held a urn and a cremation, seven contained only cremations, and eight were
filled with soil alone. The whole site had been stripped before the pavement was laid, the pits dug, and the bank built.
‘C’ Ditched double bowl (60728904) immediately adjacent on North North East of ‘B’. diams of mounds 59 ft and 55 ft, hts 5 ft and 4 1/2 ft; joined by slight bank and surrounded by hour- glass shaped ditch 12 ft wide. Partially sectioned during excavation of ‘B’, the ditch was just over 2 ft deep and probably dug before ‘B’ was constructed. Bronze Age sherds probably of bucket urn found on south West of W mound.
‘D’ Bowl (?) (60758902) 30 yds South east of E mound of ‘C’ Diam 50 ft, ht 3 1/2 ft.
‘E’ Bowl (?) (60878907) on summit of spur 130 yds North East of ‘D’. Only slight rise remains. (2-3)

‘A’ SY 60698893. Bowl barrow in arable, ploughed-down. Diameter 10.5m., height 0.4m.-0.7m. No visible ditch.
‘B’ Ploughed out. No remains.
‘C’ SY 60708904. Twin bowl barrows, with ditch 6.0m. wide on south side only, possibly, but not certainly, common to both. Each barrow is 18.0m in diameter and 2.0m. high, in arable but not ploughed.
‘D’ SY 60758902. Bowl barrow in arable, not ploughed over. Diameter 17.0m., height 1.7m. No visible ditch.
‘E’ SY 60868906. Barrow in arable, ploughed almost flat. Diameter approximately 20.0m., height 0.2m. No visible ditch.
A, C, D, E Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. Detail of B deleted on 1:2500 MSD. (4)

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[Group centred SY 54909394] Tumuli (NR) Tumuli (NR) (1)
‘A’ SY 54729413. A bowl barrow 10 paces in diameter and 0.75 ft high.
‘B’ A bowl barrow; diameter 16 paces, height 2 ft.
‘C’ Bowl barrow; diameter 23 paces, height 3 ft.
‘D, E & F’. Three bowl barrows with respective diameters of 9, 10 & 12 paces, and from 3 ins to 1 ft high. (1). [Similar information].(2 – 3)
These barrows are on arable ground: A and B in areas of grass, the others under a hay crop.
A: Not visible, and probably ploughed out; ‘site of’.
B: A grass covered bowl barrow with no visible ditch. The mound is 15.0m in diameter and 0.6m high, and there are swallow holes to the NW and NE of the barrow.
C: A bowl barrow, with no visible ditch; diameter 14.0m, height 0.7m.D: A slight unsurveyable mound, visible mainly as a crop mark; ‘site of’.
E: This bowl barrow is almost ploughed out; it has a diameter of 9.0m, and a height of 0.1m.
F: A ditchless bowl barrow, diameter 12.0m, height 0.3m. (4)

Details of Cross Dyke on Pastscape

(Centred at SY 65728506) Cross Dyke (NR) (1) Cross Ridge Dyke on Windsbatch (SY 68 NE; 65748504 to 65778517), a bank 30 ft. across and some 8 ft. above a W. ditch 30 ft. wide, is bowed slightly E. and virtually cuts off the E. end of the limestone ridge. Its S. end is on the 300 ft. contour, at the edge of a very steep slope (an apparent continuation downhill is a small boundary bank of later date built in the ditch and continuing its line); 240 ft. to the N. is a gap, probably original, 16 ft. across. A less clear length of bank running for some 90 ft. N. of this gap ends a little way down the rounded shoulder of the hill where there is much old quarry disturbance. The N. slope is only notably steep E. of the dyke, which is therefore defensive in situation as well as size. There are slight banks and scarps in the 8 acres of ridge top to the E. but the area is very disturbed. (3) In the ditch along the ridge top are several ‘Standing Stones” up to 0.7m high and in line.
The cross ridge dyke is as described by RCHM (2). The seven stones standing above ground in the ditch are possibly part of the modern boundary aspect of the complex.

Details of long barrow on Pastscape

Neolithic long barrow located near the crest of Oakley Down, orientated roughly northwest-southeast. Listed by RCHME as Sixpenny Handley 29 and by Grinsell as Handley I. Excavated totally by Pitt Rivers in 1893-4, prior to excavation it comprised a mound 150 feet long, 75 feet wide and 12 feet high. It was surrounded by a ditch which proved to be steep-sided, flat-bottomed, and interrupted by a single causeway at the northwest end and three at the southeast end. The ditch varied in width from 10 feet to 25 feet, and was up to 13 feet deep. The excavations showed that the mound was preceded by an earlier monument on the same alignment, suggested by Barrett et al (1991) to be a sub-rectangular post-built structure, the posts perhaps revetting a mound up to 1.5 metres high. A porched entrance faced southeast, and just inside it was the main burial area. Bracketed by 2 D-shaped pits and flanked by a stone bank were the disarticulated remains of 3 males and the articulated skeletons of 3 others, all covered by a low mound of soil. The ditch surrounding the later, enlarged mound featured a lengthy sequence of deposits, beginning with Early Neolithic plain bowl sherds plus antler radicoarbon dated to the early to mid 4th millennium BC in the lowest fill. Above these layers, but below those containing Peterborough Ware, were 2 crouched inhumations (1 adult, 1 child) with a large flint arrowhead against the west terminal of the entrance. Higerh layers contained Peterborough Ware pottery, while the uppermost featured some beaker sherds and Roman pottery. Seventeen possible late Saxon burials had been inserted into the ditch. In later prehistory, Wor Barrow appears to have been separated from cultivated fields by an irregulalr ditched enclosure (see SU 01 NW 12). Wor Barrow is closely associated with two later Neolithic round barrows (SU 01 NW 13 and 15). The site was reconstructed, after a fashion, by Pitt Rivers.

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A later Neolithic round barrow located immediately south east of Wor Barrow (SU 01 NW 14). The site was briefly examined by Colt Hoare in the early 19th century and more thoroughly examined by Pitt Rivers in 1894. Prior to the latter’s excavtion, the mound appears to have been circa 0.90 metres high, and was surrounded by a ditch 13 metres in diameter, and featuring a causeway on the western side, broadly facing the causeway at the southeastern end of Wor Barrow. Pitt Rivers states that fragments of a skeleton were found at the centre of the barrow lying on a heap of flint nodules. He also refers to a crouched skeleton being found 8.5 feet west of the centre and 1 foot beneath the surface (of the mound, presumably). This was accompanied by a jet slider. Sherds of Mortlake ware were found at the bottom of the ditch and below the mound, while Beaker sherds and Collared Urn sherds were also found. Hoare’s excavations were less successful. He cited disturbance to both this and the other nearby round barrow SU 01 NW 13 by a boundary ditch as a reason for the poverty of finds, but he did note fragments of human bones intermixed with soil.

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A later Neolithic round barrow located immediately south east of Wor Barrow (SU 01 NW 14). The site was briefly examined by Colt Hoare in the early 19th century and more thoroughly examined by Pitt Rivers in 1894. Prior to the latter’s excavtion, the mound appears to have been circa 0.90 metres high, and was surrounded by a ditch 13 metres in diameter, and featuring a causeway on the western side, broadly facing the causeway at the southeastern end of Wor Barrow. Pitt Rivers states that fragments of a skeleton were found at the centre of the barrow lying on a heap of flint nodules. He also refers to a crouched skeleton being found 8.5 feet west of the centre and 1 foot beneath the surface (of the mound, presumably). This was accompanied by a jet slider. Sherds of Mortlake ware were found at the bottom of the ditch and below the mound, while Beaker sherds and Collared Urn sherds were also found. Hoare’s excavations were less successful. He cited disturbance to both this and the other nearby round barrow SU 01 NW 13 by a boundary ditch as a reason for the poverty of finds, but he did note fragments of human bones intermixed with soil.

Angle Ditch – Monument No. 213495

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A length of ditch of Middle Bronze Age date discovered and excavated in October 1893 by Pitt Rivers. The ditch runs for a total length of 68.6 metres, and includes a near right-angled turn. Prior to excavation, the site had not been visible as a surface feature. The ditch averaged 2 metres in depth. No trace of an accompanying bank was observed. Area excavations failed to idnetify any post-built structures associated with the ditch. However, this was also the case at nearby South Lodge (ST 91 NE 9), where Pitt-Rivers and his labourers largely failed to notice structures which only came to light during re-excavation in the late 1970s by Barrett and Bradley. It seems likely therefore that the Angle Ditch represents either a partially enclosed settlement, or a partially ditched enclosure (see, for example, the nearby Down Farm enclosure SU 01 SW 84). Like South Lodge, the ditch appears to run around the corner of an earlier field plot (integrated within field system SU 01 NW 71). Pitt Rivers’ surface trenching recovered pottery and flint in variable quantities across the area examined, including some notable concentrations. The ditch also contained pottery, metalwork and other finds of Middle Bronze Age date. The upper fill of the ditch included some Roman pottery, and Roman sherds also occurred in a surface scatter in the vicinity. The Angle Ditch itself is also cut by a later ditch which also appears to form part of a larger irregular enclosure surrounding Wor Barrow (SU 01 NW 14) and a couple of round barrows (SU 01 NW 13 and 15). The purpose of this larger enclosure appears to have been to demarcate an unploughed area around Wor Barrow.

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Excavations at Rowberrow Cavern by the University of Bristol Speleological Society in 1920-26 uncovered material of a number of different periods. The Upper Palaeolithic appears to be represented by a few flint implements and possibly some animal remains. Some microliths and a core indicate some Mesolithic activity. The Neolithic/Early Bronze Age was represented by a range of flint implements including knives, as well as some Beaker potsherds. Iron Age finds included some pottery, a light blue bead, and traces of iron smelting. Romano-British finds included potsherds, a number of coins (some possibly “British imitations”, ie counterfeit), and a few pieces of copper alloy and of lead. Some bone objects are suggested by Branigan and Dearne to be Iron Age, while some human skeletal fragments are suggested to be pre-Roman. Soma at least of the faunal assemblage may have been contemporary with the Iron Age and Roman use of the cave.

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[ST 4492 5834] Tumulus [G.T.]. (1) T.185: Tumulus dug into 1813, contained a chamber, 4’ sq. x 3’ high, with cremation, dagger, ‘half transparent beads of various colours’, an urn and other objects. A probable secondary inhumation was also found. Two cinerary urns from ‘Rowbarrow Field .. 1818 in Bristol Mus. may have come from this site. A bronze pin was picked up c.1925 on the barrow. Finds are in the possession of Dr. N.C. Cooper of Winscombe. ‘Found on the tumulus at Rowbarrow’ 1929, flint scraper and flakes: in Somerset Arch. Soc. Mus. (2-4) This is a flat topped bowl barrow 2.0m high. It is composed of earth and stone and has been cut back at the sides. Surveyed at 1/2500. Listed by Grinsell as Shipham 2. (5) Well-worked flint knife, probably of the BA, from the large round barrow at Rowberrow near Dolebury, acquired by Bristol City Museum 1969/70. (6)

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[ST 4843 5549] Tumulus [G.T.]. (1) T 1866, O.G.S. Crawford thought this “almost certainly a barrow, possibly long”, and A.T. Wicks agrees. Tratman however, describes it as “alleged long barrow, doubtful. Perhaps a natural mound”.
“Round barrow near Longwood”, scheduled. (2-4) This is a ditchless oval mound 1.1m high. It is certainly artificial and may be a long barrow but is more probably a mis-shapen round barrow. Published survey (1/2500) revised. Listed by Grinsell as Cheddar 17. (5)

Details of henge on Pastscape

A Neolithic henge surviving as earthworks and located on a limestone spur of the Mendips. The site has seen excavation on three occasions – trial trenching in 1928 was followed by 5 seasons of excavation between 1931 and 1935. The entrance area was re-examined in 1965. The site is defined by an irregular sub-circular ditch cut into the limestone and surrounded by an earth and rubble bank. Overall diameter of the enclosure is circa 46 metres. A single entrance causewayed entrance is located on the northern side. Excavation showed the presence of two post holes on either side of the entrance, just outside the ditch but between the terminals of the bank. The interior seems to have been devoid of features. The ditch contained the bulk of the finds, including a disturbed cist burial in the northwest sector, close to the causeway, and containing the disturbed remains of at least two individuals. Further human remains were found nearby, and two skull fragments were found on the other, eastern side of the causeway. Substantial deposits of charcoal, flints, pottery and animal bones were recovered from the ditch. At least 4000 flints were recovered, and the potsherds – almost all Beaker, have been estimated to represent 100 to 120 vessels. Some later material (bucket urn sherds, probably Early Bronze Age) was also present. Other periods represented by odd finds include Mesolithic microliths and a Roman glass bead. In the 1970s, 6 radiocarbon dates were obtained on material recovered from earlier excavations. All are concentrated in the early 2nd millennium bc (uncalibrated).

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(SY 96388237) Tumulus (NR) (1) Small bowl barrow. (2) This tumulus has a diameter of 11.0m. and a height of 0.6m. with no surrounding ditch.It is somewhat spread and is surmounted by numerous small stones. Bowl barrow. Not a cairn. (3)
SY 96378237. Bowl barrow, 40ft diameter and 2ft high on spine of East Hill. Probably ploughed. (4)

Details of field system on Pastscape

An impressive prehistoric or Romano-British field system defined as ‘Celtic’ fields occupies the reasonably steep south and southwest-facing slopes across the whole of the common. The best-preserved area, comprising well-defined rectilinear plots is, centred at SY95758086 on the southern fringe of part of the barrow cemetery. Here small linked unenclosed square plots, resembling a chequerboard, with distinctive rounded corners and straight sides are formed from the material excavated out of the steep slope are anything up to 2m in height with back scarps up to 1.6m in height. There are no obvious inter-connecting ramps to the plots. Scattered patched of dense gorse and ground cover vegetation obscure parts of this extensive and impressive field system. The ‘Celtic’ fields extend across the lower, south-facing slopes and consequently are not as well defined with front scarps or ‘risers’ up to 0.8m high. These plots clearly respect the courses of the broad and natural shallow valleys which are formed by the action of spring sapping, by inturning along the line of the valley slope.

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A group of four Bronze Age bowl barrows on Corfe Common. All are extant as earthwork mounds, one possibly surrounded by a ditch. Signs of disturbance suggest that some excavation has occurred on at least one of the barrows in the past. A plain tripartite urn in the British Museum (accession number 1982.9-1.238) has been identified as coming either from one of these barrows or from one of the adjacent barrow groups (SY 98 SE 17 and 47). Scheduled.

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Barrow group on Coombe Beacon, comprises four bowl barrows and two bell barrows.
(Centred SY 860844) Tumuli (NR) (six shown) (1) A group of heather-covered round barrows on Coombe Beacon:
‘A’ SY 86148450. Bell barrow, 22.0m. diameter and 2.0m. high with berm approx 2.0m. wide. The mound is flattened and mutilated by rabbits and there is a surrounding ditch 2.3m. wide and 0.4m. deep.
‘B’ SY 86158445. Bell barrow, 22.0m. diameter and 1.8m. high with a berm averaging 2.0m. wide. The surrounding ditch is 2.0m. wide and 0.3m. deep. The top of the mound has been mutilated by rabbits.
‘C’ SY 85998440. Bowl barrow, 26.0m. diameter and 1.7m. high on the south and 1.2m. high on the north. There is no evidence of a berm or ditch, and the mound is flat topped and spread.
‘D’ SY 86008435. Bowl barrow, 15.0m. diameter and 1.2m high with no trace of berm or ditch, slightly mutilated at the sides.
‘E’ SY 85968435. Bowl barrow, 15.0m. diameter and 1.1m high with no trace of berm or ditch mutilated by rabbits.
‘F’ SY 86068449. Bowl barrow, 18.0m. diameter and 0.25m high, much spread, but with no trace of berm or ditch. (2)

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(SZ 01438210) Thorny Barrow (Tumulus) (NR) (1) Thorny Barrow, destroyed. Quarried away before 1939. (2)
This mound has not been quarried away entirely, but fragmentary remains are still visible adjacent to a sand quarry; it is now impossible to give any measurement for these remains. This mound might possibly have been the result of a natural geological formation as seen in similar mounds in the proximity (see SZ 08 SW 11, 43 and 44). (3)
SZ 01438210. Thorny Barrow, bowl (?)barrow, about 65ft diameter and about 8ft high, on the edge of a broad ridge but almost unrecognisable owing to the encroachment of a large sand pit. (5)

Details of earthworks on Pastscape

Linear earthworks comprising banks and ditches present on Worgret Heath and Wareham Common. These consist of two alignements whigh meet at a central point. Each has a pair of banks 7 to 12 metres wide and 0.2 to 0.4 metres high which flank a pair of ditches 4 to 5 metres wide. These are now visible as a single depression between the banks. The southern earthwork has been disturbed by sand and gravel extraction and truncated by road. Scheduled.

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(’A’-SY 90128737; ‘B’ – SY 90118733) Tumuli (NR) (two shown) (1)
‘A’ Dimensions: Diam 9 yards. Height 3ft undisturbed.
‘B’ Dimensions: Diam 17 yards. Height 5ft. Flat topped shallow surrounding ditch. (2)
‘A’ Diameter 6.5 metres; height 0.8 metres. No sign of a berm, but three trenches have been dug in what appears to be an unsurveyable ditch. No other sign of mutilation. Probably a bowl barrow.
‘B’ Diameter 14.0 metres. Height 1.8 metres. A surrounding ditch has an average depth of 0.3m. and width of 1.3 metres. This has been mutilated on the W side by a land drainage trench. No berm visible. A bowl barrow. (3)

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There are two barrow in “Young Creech”, a field belonging to Woodstreet Farm (NY 856856) which were opened about 1831. Several urns were discovered with burnt bones and ashes.(1) Field investigation revealed two barrows near Woodstreet Farm. SY 84848571: Bowl barrow, grass covered and measuring 24.0m. diameter and 1.1m. high has a rather flattened top containing a slight depression. SY 84838575: Bowl barow, grass covered and spread measuring 24.0m. diameter and an average height of 0.8m. No surface finds were made during field investigation. (2)
SY 84838573: Bowl (?) barrow, 72ft. diameter and 4ft. high with trigonometrical station on slightly hollow top. Probably one of two opened in mid 19th century in “Young Creech”, when several inurned cremations were found. Also probably one of two formerly noted south of Quarr Hill. The other barrow at SY 84848571 is not listed by R.C.H.M. (3-4)

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(SY 87678199) Thorn Barrow Tumulus (NR) (1) The northern half of this barrow has been badly spread out by shell-fire and the ditch in this area has been obliterated. East-West the barrow measures 27.0m. and North-South approximately 25.0m. while the ditch is 2.5m. wide and 0.4m. deep.There were no surface finds in the vicinity of this bowl-barrow. (2)

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Two Bronze Age bowl barrows situated on a knoll overlooking Frome Valley to the north. The larger barrow is 18m in diameter and 1.5m high with a ditch visible as a 2m wide depression to the north and south, elsware the ditch will survive as a buried feature. The upper part of the mound has a number of trenches cut into it of military origin. This barrow is scheduled. The other barrow is scrub covered.

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Tumulus (NR) (Three times) (A – SY 93078481 : B – SY 9307 8465 : C – SY 92988449). (1)
‘A’ is a rather poorly shaped bowl barrow with diameter of 17.0m and a height of 1.5m with no surrounding ditch. Heather covered with no apparent signs of mutilation.
‘B’ has a diameter of 22.0m and a max height of 2.4m. and has no surrounding ditch. A hollow in the top has a diameter of 3.0m and is 0.4m deep. A small portion at the Eastern base has been cut away. A heather and gorse covered Bowl Barrow.
‘C’ Is a badly mutilated bowl barrow. A trench in the East measures 4.0m long and 1.8m wide and appears to have been cut for soil extractions and not excavation. It is badly pitted all over and now serves as a rubbish dump. The barrow has a diameter of 16.5m and is 1.4m high and has no surrounding ditch.
These widely spaced three round barrows are submerged under dense impenetrable gorse; although detailed inspection was impossible they appear not to have suffered serious depredation since the report of 1970 (4).

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(Centred SY 925840) Tumuli (NR) (1)
‘A’ SY 92488402. Bowl barrow. ‘B’ SY 92508402. Bowl barrow ‘C’ SY 92528402. Large Bowl barrow with slight ditch. ‘D’ SY 92598405 Spread bowl barrow. (2)
The Creech Heath group of four bowl barrows lies in a west-east line above a south slope. One of these may have been the barrow on the Heath opened in the 19th century (see SY 98 SW 47)

A string of four round barrows occupying a prominent position on a low ridge in heathland.
‘A’. This barrow is now submerged under dense, mature gorse bushes. The mound appears to have been gutted and the area has been disturbed by exploratory mining pits.
‘B’. This round barrow is also covered by mature gorse bushes; a large pit or shaft has been dug beside the west edge. It measures about 11.0m in diameter and is approximately 1.1m high.
‘C’. This ditched round barrow is situated on the edge of the ridge top so part of its mound and ditch lie on a south-facing slope. It measures from 22.0 to 23.0m overall and the mound is up to 2.6m high. The ditch at its deepest is 0.7m but it gradually fades to 0.2m on the downhill side. (c/f SY 98 SW 1. ‘b’).
‘D’. A spread round barrow up to 19.2m in diameter and 0.8m high.

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(SY 92108233) Tumulus (NR). (1) A bowl barrow, large and ditched, hollow in centre. On Creech Barrow, but the name almost certainly refers to the hill and not to the barrow on the hill.(2) This barrow has been badly mutilated by excavation in the North East quadrant and a hollow measuring 8.0m long, 5.0m wide and 1.3m deep remains. It has also been mutilated by a modern boundary bank and ditch C-D. The barrow is 22.0m A-B and 19.0m C-D and has a maximum height of 3.0m. It has a ditch in the South-East quadrant 2.5m wide and 0.3m deep. Bowl Barrow. (3)

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(SY 92188468) Tumulus (NR) (1) Bell Barrow. Rather small with sloping narrow berm.Surrounded by tree-ring. (2)
This barrow has a diameter of 21.0m and a height of 2.2m and is surrounded by a modern bank with outer ditch. It has a vague berm. It is flat topped and is heather covered. There are no visible traces of it having been excavated. Bell Barrow. (3)

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An oval-shaped mound on Stonehill Down, extant as an earthwork, has been variously described as an oval barrow, a long barrow and a bell barrow. RCHME field investigation for the Dorset Inventory described it as being 96 feet long, 64 feet wide and up to 9 feet high, surrounded by a sloping berm and then a ditch, the latter 1 foot deep and up to 20 feet wide. The ditch is interrupted by a causeway at each end. Since then it has suffered some plough damage but is still substantially extant. Classification remains a problem. Scheduled.

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The ‘Ferny Barrows’ situated on the summit of a slight rise consist of:
‘A’ – (38) – SY 86648165. Bowl barrow, 48ft. diameter and 5ft. high. Disturbed near centre.
‘B’ – (39) – SY 86668261. Bowl barrow, 75ft. diameter and 6ft. high. Damaged on north and disturbed in centre. (2)
Both barrows are in an arable field but have not been ploughed over.

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(SY 86768559) Tumulus (NR) (1) A large bowl barrow with a ditch. (2) This mound has a diameter of 20.0 metres and a height of 1.8 metres. There is no trace of a berm, but the ditch averages 1.5 metres in width and 0.4 metres deep. The centre and southern portion of this bowl barrow has been mutilated by a large excavation, possibly for military reasons. A cutting 7.0 metres wide and 1.5 metres deep extends from the south edge to beyond the centre of the barrow, for a total distance of 11.0 metres Much of the upcast from this cutting has been thrown into the south quadrant of the ditch, filling a length of about 12.0 metres. The sides of this bowl barrow are covered with small trees and some coarse grass. No surface finds were made in the area during field investigation. (3)

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(Centred SY 876840) Five Barrows (NR) (1)
Five Barrow Hill Group of six round barrows, including three bells in an almost straight line along the summit of a slight ridge: (2)
‘A’-(36) SY 87598410. Bell barrow, about 90ft diameter and 5ft high with berm about 12ft wide and ditch 12ft wide and up to 2 1/2 ft deep.
‘B’-(35)-SY 87608405. Bell barrow, about 100ft diameter and 7ft high with berm 12ft wide and ditch 12ft wide and up to 2 1/2ft deep.
‘C’-(34) SY 87618400. Bell barrow, 105ft diameter including sloping berm and 6ft high, with recently recut ditch 12ft wide and up to 3 1/2ft deep.
‘D’-(32)-SY 87638393. Bowl barrow, 62ft diameter and 4 1/2ft high.
‘E’-(31)-SY 87628390. Bowl (?) barrow, about 42ft diameter and about 4ft high. Destroyed.
‘F’-(33)-SY 87638397. Bowl (?) barrow, about 30ft diameter and 1ft high. (Authy 2). (3)

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Bronze age bowl barrow and the levelled remains of a bowl barrow situated on Arne Hill in the Isle of Purbeck. The bowl barrow located at NGR SY96928816 has a mound composed of earth, sand and turf with a maximum diameter of 25 metres and a maximum height of circa 2.5 metres. The top of the mound has two small trenches likely to represent World War II dug-outs. Surrounding the mound is a ditch from which material was quarried during the construction of the monument. This survives as an earthwork 3 metres wide and circa 0.75 metres deep and is flanked by an outer bank 2.25 metres wide and circa 0.5 metres high. The levelled barrow located at NGR SY97168806 had a small mound composed of earth, sand and turf. This was reduced during World War II. The quarry ditch surrounding the mound has become infilled over the years and survives as a buried feature. Scheduled.

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A bowl barrow situated on the upper south east facing slope of Godlingston Hill. The barrow is one of three recorded on Godlingston Hill. The barrow has a mound composed of earth, flint and chalk, with maximum dimensions of 13.5 metres in diameter and about 0.75 metres in height. This is surrounded by an infilled quarry ditch which survives as a buried feature 1.5 metres wide. Two small quarry holes situated to the north west and south east of the barrow could also relate to the construction of the monument, as similar features are known to be associated with other barrows nearby. During the 19th century, the barrow was partially excavated by WA Miles and, later, by JH Austen. The investigations identified a cremation burial lying between two horizontal stones. Scheduled.

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(SZ 01258107) Giant’s Trencher (NAT) Tumulus (NR) (1) Dug by J. H. Austen 1851. Nothing found. Bowl barrow. Diam. 9 paces. Height 2ft. (2) A circular mound with a diameter of 8.0m. and a height of 0.5m. with no ditch, berm or visible traces of mutilation. Situated at the bottom of a re-entrant. Gorse and turf-covered bowl barrow. (3)

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(SZ 01228106) Giant’s Grave (NAT) Tumulus (NR) (1)
Dug by J. H. Austen 1851. Nothing found. An oblong mound, 12 x 5 paces 1 1/2ft high. (2)
An oblong mound which measures 10.0m. East-West and 4.0m. North-South with no ditch or traces of mutilation. Heavily overgrown with bramble bushes. Situated at the bottom of a re-entrant. ?Barrow. (3)

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(ST 95554230) Upton Great Barrow (GT) (1) Upton Great Barrow was described and planned by Hoare and is identified by Grinsell as a bell-barrow with outer bank, the mound 78 feet in diameter and 10 feet high, with a berm 6 feet wide, now almost overspread and a ditch 21 feet wide and a foot deep. The bank is 21 feet wide and six inches high. It was opened by a labourer digging flints, prior to 1812, who found bones and ashes. Cunnington dug it and found a shallow grave containing a primary cremation accompanied by a necklace of faience, lignite and amber beads. Cunnington made several sections of the mound, finding potsherds, stag’s horns, animal bones and vast quantities of ashes and charred wood. (2-3)
Upton Great Barrow now has the appearance of a bowl barrow with a ditch and outer bank; all traces of the berm have disappeared. The central mound is 2.5 m high, the ditch about 0.8 m deep, and the surrounding bank 0.2 m high.A short length of the outer bank has been destroyed by a trackway on the southern side of the barrow.

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A bell barrow, known as Great Barrow, located on Weasenham Lyngs. It is part of a wider, dispersed round barrow cemetery and was formerly part of a more extensive grouping, including two bowl barrows which were located between 100m-200m south of the Great Barrow. The two bowl barrows were archaeologically excavated in 1972 and are now destroyed.

The bell barrow is visible as an earthen mound surrounded by a ditch with an internal and external bank. The mound, measuring 30m in diameter and standing up to 2m high, is situated on a roughly circular platform which measures about 47m north west-south east by 42.5m. The berm, between the edge of the mound and the internal bank, measures between 3m to 5m in width. The slight internal bank, up to 1.5m wide, stands at the edge of the platform, bordering the inner edge of the ditch except on the south side of the barrow where the ground appears level. The ditch measures up to 3m wide and 0.5m deep and is, in turn, enclosed by an external bank measuring up to 3.5m in width and up to 0.5m high. There is a slight depression in the centre of the mound and a shallow, semicircular depression on its east side.

This monument class is rare in Norfolk, and the bell barrow is of unusual form in that it includes an external bank.

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Roman barrow cemetery with possible Bronze Age origins. Only one survives as an earthwork. This was enlarged for use as a medieval motte and bailey and a windmill mound. It was also used as a Civil War gun emplacement and incorporated into a public garden after 1790.

A – TR 1477 5736: Danejohn Mound [NR]. (1)
B – TR 1469 5726 :
C – TR 1486 5732 :
D – TR 1504 5753
Sited from map (4) full description and history. (2)
Four Roman barrows (3), called Dungil Hills, or Dane John of which only one, the Danejohn (A) remains in a mutilated state (known 17th -18th century as Donjon: Dungeon: Dungil). In 1790, when the area was turned into a public park, this was smoothed and rounded and raised 18 feet in height. A ditch, which was filled in, encircled two-thirds of the base and suggests a possible adaption as a Norman motte. During the Civil War the mound was a gun platform and at one time a windmill stood on it . (4) A late Bronze Age socketed axe was found in barrow ‘B’. Apart from this all the finds from these barrows appear to be Roman or later. Scheduled. (5)

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Four bowl barrows situated on a ridge known as Broomhill. The barrows each have a mound composed of earth, sand and turf, with maximum dimensions of between 13 metres to 17 metres in diameter and between circa 1.2 metres to 1.8 metres in height. Each mound is surrounded by a quarry ditch which survive as buried features circa 1.5 metres to 2 metres wide. Scheduled.
The Broomhill Group of four, tree covered and damaged bowl barrows in an irregular line on the crest of a spur.
‘A’ – (84) SY 86329508. 30ft diameter and 4ft high.
‘B’ – (85) SY 86359509. 40ft diameter and 5ft high.
‘C’ – (86) SY 86389509. 53ft diameter and 7 1/2ft high.
‘D’ – (87) SY 86419506. 45ft diameter and 5ft high. (4)

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A bowl barrow with a mound composed of earth, flint and chalk with maximum dimensions of 21 metres in diameter and circa 2.2 metres in height. The mound is surrounded by a quarry ditch which has become infilled over the years, but will survive as a buried feature circa 2 metres wide. Scheduled.

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Woodbury (SY 856948) is a contour hill-fort which occupies the entire flat top of the gravel-capped spur called Woodbury Hill 360ft above OD, 1/2 mile E of the parish church. The area enclosed is about 12 acres. The defences, though now much broken down, consist of a main inner rampart, at best 40ft wide and 19ft high above a single ditch, 5ft deep and 30ft wide, and a relatively massive counterscarp bank up to 26ft across, beyond which the ground falls steeply on the E side and greater part of the S side. On the NW there is a sloping shelf between the ramparts and the steep face of the hill. On this shelf is a series of rather flat-topped parallel ridges 1ft high, 10 yds or so wide and about 50 yds long, divided by furrows about 4ft wide. These are more likely to be connected with the annual sheep fairs once held in the hill-fort (Hutchins I, 135) than with agriculture. To the N a gently dipping but fairly narrow saddle connects the spur with the main ridge. At this vulnerable point the outer bank seems to have been thrust about 70 yds forward from the main rampart but the remains have been heavily ploughed. In the lane to the NE is a double fall which might mark the line of a ditch but this cannot be confirmed.

The present road in from the SW probably follows the line of an original entrance, and possibly does that at the NE; but all the other breaks in the defences seem to be secondry. The surface of the interior is uneven in many places but it is impossible to detect anything certainly ancient. The chapel shown on the plan certainly existed in the early 15th century and its footings were still traceable in the late 18th century (Hutchins, ibid). The nearby well was traditionally associated with it.

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(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)

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A large round barrow or mound, part of a major monument complex at Knowlton and of probable Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age date. Described in the RCHME Dorset Inventory as comprising a mound 135 feet in diameter and 21 feet high, surrounded by two concentric ditches, both largely levelled by ploughing. The inner ditch is separated from the base of the mound by a berm circa 15 feet across. The outer ditch is around 400 feet in diameter and about 35 feet wide. The air photo published by RCHME appears to show a distinct entrance causeway through the outer ditch on the northeast, althuogh the transcription shows it as a continuous feature. A pipe trench cut in July 1958 ran in a southwest-northeast direction, passing southeast of the mound but cutting across the outer ditch in two places. The pipe trench was fairly shallow in relation to the ditch, so a trial trench was excavated beside the pipe trench at the point where the latter crossed the south-southwest part of the barrow ditch. Constraints of time and space appear to have prevented a complete section being excavated. However, the ditch was shown to be 5.5 feet deep below the modern ground surface, and to be flat-bottomed. A sequence of fills was described briefly by the excavator. No artefacts were recovered. The barrow has been mapped from aerial photographs by EH’s Knowlton Circles Project.

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A cluster of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments near Knowlton. The principal features are the henge monuments and the Great Barrow, while a number of round barrows and ring ditches are also focused on the area. Until recently, little fieldwork has been undertaken in the area. Some stray finds of Neolithic date have been reported, while some flint scatters have been examined on the opposite side of the Allen Valley to the monuments. A research programme undertaken by Bournemouth University in 1993-5 included geophysical survey on various monuments in the area as well as some trial excavation at the southern henge (SU 01 SW 101). The monuments in this group are visible on aerial photographs and have been been mapped by EH’s Knowlton Circles Project. See child and associated monument records for details about individual sites. The core of the site is in the care of English Heritage.