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(SU 0224 2246 to SU 0263 2239) Ditch (NR). A winding univallate ditch, over 300 yds long, on Marleycombe Hill (2), now partially ploughed out (3). It apparently bends to avoid the barrows Bower Chalke 9-11 (SU 02 SW 5) and is earlier than the surrounding field system (SU 02 SW 1). It is uncertain whether the apparent continuation to the southeast is part of the ditch or a lynchet. Ground checked by C M Piggot in 1951. The eastern end of this linear has been ploughed out but the remainder, including scoops of a possible settlement area at SU 0215 2244, is grass covered and in good condition. Contrary to authority 2’s assessment the linear seems to be later than the field system.

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A Late Bronze Age settlement enclosure with associated field system with lynchets and round barrow cemetery containing 6 barrows situated 145 metres north 350 metres east of Rushmore Farm. It has a sub rectangular enclosure of about 0.3 hectares bounded by a low bank with a surrounding ditch with a single causeway leading to an entrance. The round barrow cemetery developed over a long period of time predating the enclosure and continuing in use throughout its occupancy. The field system includes banks of rectangular fields which predate the enclosure and cemetery but also continued in use throughout the period of occupation. Excavation in 1893 recovered a range of Bronze Age finds including beaker pottery, a bronze chisel or awl, two bronze razors and a looped spearhead. Roman pottery was found in the upper parts of the enclosure ditch and throughout the area. Other finds included flint scrapers, a sandstone saddle-quern and animal bones. The earthwork was restored after the 19th century excavation. Further excavations took place in 1978. Scheduled.

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(A: SU 0233 2256, B: SU 0235 2257, C: SU 0234 2248, D: SU 0235 2249, E: SU 0236 2249 and F: SU 0234 2257) Tumuli (NR).
Six bowl barrows (see plan (3)) on Marleycombe Hill, excavated by Dr R C C Clay in 1926 (4), when urns of the Deveril-Rimbury type were found. The finds went to Devizes Museum.
Bower Chalke 6 (A: SU 0233 2256) 11 paces in diameter and 1 ft in height. A central cairn previously disturbed, leaving no trace of a primary. To the east was an inverted Bronze Age barrel urn (secondary?) with no trace of burnt bones or ashes. A Beaker sherd was in the material.
Bower Chalke 7 (F: SU 0234 2257), 10 paces in diameter and 1 ft in height. The remains of a primary (crouched?) skeleton;
an empty cist to the south. Secondary adult cremation near the northeast corner of the grave, with Bronze Age sherds.
Bower Chalke 8 (B: SU 0235 2257) 15 paces in diameter and 3 ft in height. A primary interment of two crouched skeletons, one
with beaker. In material of mound a fragment of a flat bottomed vessel the paste and texture of which were similar to that of bowls from Windmill Hill (3); Romano British sherds superficially.
Bower Chalke 9 (C: SU 0234 2248) 9 paces in diameter and 1 1/2 ft in height. The primary cremation of an adult, mixed with ashes, disturbed, and urn possibly removed by previous excavators.
Bower Chalke 10 (D: SU 0235 2249) 8 paces in diameter and 2 ft in height. Previously disturbed, and central cist empty. To the southeast were two Bronze Age barrel urns, one upright and the other inverted, each containing a cremation and both in the same cist (secondary).
Bower Chalke 11 (E: SU 0236 2249) 9 paces in diameter and 2 ft in height. A cremation beneath an inverted Bronze Age barrel urn 5 ft southeast of the centre but probably the primary interment. Near this on the west a small cist with cremation, presumed secondary.
Colt Hoare (5) shows seven barrows here on his map, but one may be the mound shown on OS 6” at SU 0201 2228.

Three of these barrows were excavated by John Burroughs in 1883. In one he found an unburnt skeleton, parts of which he removed, above which was a Bronze Age barrel urn. It appears to have been empty. Grinsell (2) queries whether it came from Bower Chalke 7. It went to Salisbury Museum. He also found (in barrows 9 and 10?) a large and small urn now lost (Dr Blackmore’s ‘Locked Notebook’ in Salisbury Museum). Clay (3) suggests, on the assumption that the top soil used in the construction of barrows 6-8 was gathered from their immediate neighbourhood, that the presence of beaker fragments, pot-boilers, pieces of sandstone and black soil, indicates that there was a Beaker settlement close by. The remains of a Beaker floor were found beneath the top soil over which burrows 9-11 were constructed.
Clay could not substantiate his opinion by trial trenching and the signs of habitation appear to spread over most of the northern crest of (Marlycombe) Hill. (2-6)
It is clear from Grinsell’s Pte 6” that he has numbered Clay’s barrows 1-3 in reverse order ie the NGR’s as given in VCH 1 are not applicable to the dimensions and the other details taken from Clay’s account. On this card the details have been applied to the barrows in their correct plan position taken from Clay’s account, and Grinsell’s numbers have been applied to the same NGRs as given in his list. (7)

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A long barrow, 97 feet long, 70 feet wide, 14 feet high in 1812, but more recently 10 feet high apparently oriented east south east/west north west. It was excavated in 1804 by W Cunnington, who found a layer of charred wood and ashes possibly from platform cremations, but no primary burials in the mound, one accompanied by sword, knife, spearhead, umbo and other objects. All the finds seem to have been lost. It was re-opened by Thurman and the Rev A Fane in 1856 but without result. The mound is much damaged by ploughing and other mutilations and there is no indication of flanking ditches.

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Earthworks of a long barrow. Field investigations in 1975 found it to measure 45 metres in length, 17 metres wide, and up to 3 metres high. Its centre had been quarried away.

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(ST 95153849) Tumulus (NR). Boyton. A bowl barrow, 25 paces in diameter and 10 feet high. It was excavated by W Cunnington who found a primary cremation and 13 intrusive, Romano-British or more probably Saxon inhumation burials. ST 95153849. This bowl barrow is 21 metres in diameter and 4 metres high. Published 1:2500 survey revised.Bowl barrow situated 300 metres to the east of Boyton Field Barn. The barrow comprises a conical mound 25 metres in diameter and about 3 metres high.

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A henge monument on Sutton Common extant as an earthwork. The site has been surveyed by RCHME as part of the South Wiltshire project. Circa 0.2 hectares in area, it is defined by a bank circa 10 metres wide and 0.5 metres high, with an internal ditch circa 10 metres wide and 1 metre deep. Numerous hollows along its course suggest that the ditch was of segmented character. The maximum diameter is circa 80 metres, and a aingle entrance is located to the southwest. A causeway 7 metres wide connects the entrance to a sub-square central platform area circa 35 metres in diameter. The site has previously been considered a saucer barrow or a Medieval ringwork. Although seemingly atypical of henges, the form of the enclosure is not unknown among the variety of sites regarded as henges, particularly the pit-defined enclosures.

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A slight univallate hillfort at Fox Covert situated at the west end of a steep sided spur. The earthworks enclose approximately 3.25 hectares and are for the most part determined by the natural contours, except at the east end where they cut across the spur. The approach at the east end is almost level and the defences here include a substantial outer ditch 7.5 metres wide, that was recorded as being 1.8 metres deep in 1875, but has since been largely backfilled with modern building material. Behind the ditch is a slight bank about 0.3 metres high which has been much reduced by ploughing. There are two gaps in the defences on this side, one of which may represent an original entrance. The remainder of the defences run along or just below the edge of the spur. On the north and west sides these consist of a scarp, a ditch and a low counterscarp bank. These terminate on the west side at a point of later quarrying and survives best on the north side where the ditch is approximately 3 metres wide. The counterscarp bank is up to 3 metres wide and 1 metre high in places, although elsewhere it is only 0.3 metres high. The south and south west sides are formed by simple scarping. This is clearly in evidence on the south side but is less pronounced on the south west side. Scheduled.

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(ST 78623765) Tumulus (GT) Excavated by Colt Hoare; a low tumulus which he found to have ‘once contained a skeleton’ but to have been disturbed, probably by the county boundary ditch. He found many fragments of ‘ancient pottery’ near it and, in the boundary ditch, several small brass coins of the Lower Empire; these he supposed to be connected with a beacon rather than a settlement, for which he held the site to be unsuitable. Indentified by VCH as a bowl barrow, 13 paces in diameter and 3ft high. MOW records describe it as a disc barrow, 66ft in diameter, 18” high, with a ditch 2ft deep. The centre had been dug out for a concrete trig-pillar. It was under grass in 1955. A bowl barrow 14.0m in diameter and 0.4m high, not 3ft as Grinsell says. Its perimeter consists of a small bank, about 1.0m wide and 0.1m high with, on the E and W, an equally weak ditch – 1.0m wide and 0.2m deep. This has presumably given rise to the MOW disc barrow identification. The bank and ditch are unlikely to be original features but were probably created after Hoare’s excavation in the fashion of a tree ring. A hollow 4.0m wide and 0.2m deep in the centre of the mound could represent site of a tree or Hoare’s excavation. The N side of the barrow has been destroyed by the Parish boundary ditch. The area is under pasture and the narrowness of the ridge would, as Hoare states, be unsuitable for a settlement. The Roman coins found by him may indicate casual occupation. His suggestion of a beacon site is obviously speculative.

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ST 705 445. Excavations in the rock shelter called “Tom Tivey’s Hole”, revealed sherds comprising an almost complete profile of around based bowl of Abingdon ware, also the pointed end of a probable Neolithic bone awl. Finds also included a gold stud of post medieval date, and pottery of the same period; late Iron Age and Romano-British pottery, and similarly dated pottery; Neolithic potsherds plus human remains, and lithic items including a leaf shaped arrowhead and a barbed and tanged arrowhead. An object described as a gold band may be Bronze Age or Roman.
Tom Tivey’s Hole is a natural rock shelter at the foot of a cliff face at ST 7051 4447. The entrance is 4.0m wide by 2.5m high and the roof slopes down to the floor 3.5m in from the entrance. Surveyed at 1/2500. A full report of the excavations which was conducted by Mr. John Barrett, is being prepared. The material from this excavation and a bone pottery stamp (AO/64/88/1-4), found during field investigation is in Bristol Museum. Excavation of Tom Tivey’s Hole was commenced in 1958. The Ne pottery was later identified as Windmill Hill ware, and other finds included a gold band, presumably of BA date, a barbed & tanged arrowhead, and Ro. pottery.

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[ST 798439] RODDENBURY CAMP [GT] Roddenbury Camp is a univallate hill Fort, (150 yds by 75 yds), in the N.E. corner of Longleat Wood. Only a scarp remains of the bank on the north; the ditch has been filled up on North and West. The entrance seems to have been on the west. Roddenbury hill-fort occupies a prominent hill-top position. It is in a plantation of young beech trees with dense undergrowth of brambles and bracken and cannot be adequately examined. [See illust (b)]
It appears from the AP’s to have been of triangular plan but only on the E. side is the rampart and ditch well preserved. There is a short section of denuded rampart on the W; elsewhere the hill fort has been destroyed by earth digging. It is uncertain whether the gap for a bridle path in the western side is an original feature although the approach from the W. is
relatively easy.

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[ST 7699 4346] TUMULUS [G.T.] (1) Grinsell considers this to be a barrow, and it was regarded as such by Collinson and Skinner. It is a grass covered, circular mound with a maximum height, on the north, of 1.9m, but appears to have been dug away on the south where it slopes down to ground level. It seems too small to have been a motte and its appearance is much more in keeping with a robbed bowl barrow. (See G.P. AO/64/266/3). Re-surveyed at 1:2500.

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(ST 763347) Camp (NR) An IA ? bivallate hill-fort, at Park Hill, Stourton, is of approximately 6 acres in extent. There are entrances on the east and west and it is naturally defended by steep slopes. An IA fort of two-period construction, situated at a height of about 213m OD, on a narrow Greensand ridge with steep slopes on the north east and south west.
The first occupation phase is represented by the outer work which comprises a substantial rampart, outer ditch and counterscarp bank (see sections) enclosing an area of 2.3 hectares. There are two entrances : one on the north west side (damaged by a later track), the other at the south east corner (bisected by an old boundary bank).
The inner work is D-shaped in plan with sharp north west and south west angles. It measures internally 130m north west-south east by 98m transversely, enclosing an area of 1 hectare. The rampart measures 8m in width and a maximum of 1m in height; the external, rather flat-bottomed ditch is 6m wide and varies between 0.3m and 1.2m deep.
The uneven appearance of the bank and ditch, particularly on the south west side, leaves little doubt that the second phase is unfinished. There is an ‘off-set’ entrance in the south east side. The interior is featureless. The site is covered by trees, but is otherwise in good condition. The topographical situation, on a heavily wooded narrow Greensand ridge, together with the general plan and ‘off-set’ entrance, are reminiscent of the Wealden fort at Hammer Wood, Iping, Sussex (see SU 82 SW 1).

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(ST 74573541) Jack’s Castle Tumulus (GT) (1) A bell barrow, called Jack’s Castle or Selwood Barrow, measuring 66ft in diameter, 10ft high, with a berm 15ft wide and 1ft deep. It was excavated by Colt Hoare and found to comprise soft sand covering a cairn of ‘picked flint’ which contained a primary cisted cremation burial. This was accompanied by a flat bronze dagger with a wooden sheath and a battle axe of non-ophitic dolerite, (Petrological Classn No 292) now in Devizes Museum. As described by Grinsell except that the ditch is now only traceable in the eastern half and is narrower and shallower than when he visited the barrow. Somewhat overgrown with laurel etc but undisturbed by afforestation. 1:2500 survey revised.

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A Bronze Age bell barrow located north of Normanton Gorse, and listed by Grinsell as Amesbury 15. Excavated by Colt Hoare in the early 19th century, he found a primary inhumation laid on an elm plank. The interment was accompanied by a bronze dagger in a wooden box, a small bronze knife-dagger, antlers and a pottery vessel described as a ‘drinking cup’, usually regarded as being a Beaker, though this need not be the case. Traces of three wooden poles were observed extending from the primary interment to the top of the barrow. All the finds except the bronze dagger, which is in Devizes Museum, are lost. The barrow is still extant as an earthwork. Scheduled.

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3 Bronze Age bowl barrows located on Charlton Down 860 metres east of Netherley Farm and surviving remnant of a larger round barrow cemetery which has been mainly levelled by ploughing. Scheduled.

This group has been reduced by ploughing in recent years but five are still surveyable.
`A’ is 14.0m in diameter by 0.6 metres in height
`B’ is 12.0m in diameter by 0.3 metres in height
`C’ has been reduced to a mound 16 metres in diameter by 1.1 metres in height. The ditch has been almost completely ploughed out and the apparent `berm’ is probably due to the removal of the edges of the barrow by ploughing.
`D’ is 10 metres in diameter by 0.4 in height.
`E’ is an irregularly shaped mound measuring 23 metres from north to south and 12 metres from east to west by 0.3 metres in height.
`F’ – `J’ have now been almost completely ploughed out but are visible as slight mounds of flint.

Five barrows extant as follows:
A. SU 7340 1498. Diameter 12 metres Height 0.6 metres
B. SU 7340 1496. Diameter 10 metres by 14 metres. Height 0.3 metres.
C. SU 7341 1493. Diameter 16 metres. Height 1.1 metres
D. SU 73451488. Diameter 7.5 metres. Height 0.4 metres
E. SU 73381487. 22.0m. by 14 metres. Height 0.3 metres

A group of round barrows on the highest part of Charlton Down. They are presumably Bronze Age but the possibility of Saxon activity cannot be ruled out in view of the proximity of Chalton Down Saxon village (SU 73 SW 33).
a. An oval mound, probably twin barrows, ploughed but as high and conspicuous as circa 20 paces, height 2 feet 6 inches
b. Smaller ploughed mound, diameter 15 paces, height 2 feet.
c. Unploughed barrow. Diameter including remnant of ditch 21paces, height 3 feet. (The configuration and dimensions of these three barrows strongly suggest that the NGR, SU 734 150 and map given on the record form are incorrect and that the scheduling should apply to barrows A, B and C of this group).

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(’A’-ST80810856; ‘B’-ST80820852) Within the largest enclosure on Ringmoor are two tumuli. (Plotted from plan. ‘B’ is published as a mound on OS 6” 1902).
‘A’ and ‘B’ are two grass covered mounds situated in the vicinity of an Iron Age/Romano-British settlement, and on an east-facing slope, some 50ft below a ridge.
‘A’ – An elongated, almost triangular mound, approximatley NE-SW on the long axis. It measures 9.0m x 5.0m., with a height of 0.4m. There is a slight trace of a ditch.
‘B’ Roughly circular in plan, with a diameter of 5.5m. The mound is 0.1m high on the NW and 0.4m. high on the SE. It has a small hollow in the centre.
It would seem hazardous to describe these mounds as barrows, for while they could possibly be mutilated bowl barrows, they could be field clearance mounds or in some other way associated with the settlement, and without excavation the classification is uncertain. (2)

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Bowl barrow in Turnworth at ST 8267 0807. Ditch on North side (?) Shape due to differential land usage. Approximately 45x30 feet wide and 8 feet high. (1)

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(ST 98382641) Tumulus (NR). A probable long barrow 75 feet long, 60 feet wide and 4 feet high, orientated NNE/SSW. It is on arable and the suggestion of side-ditches seen on the ground by Grinsell in 1937 was confirmed by him from an air photograph of the site after ploughing. (2) ST 98382640: This probable long barrow survives as an oval mound 22m long, NE-SW by 14m tranversely with excavation depressions at its centre and NE end. No trace of a ditch survives. Published survey 25” revised. (3)

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A bowl barrow in Scrubbity Coppice, one of a group excavated by Pitt Rivers in 1882-3. Pitt Rivers’ barrow ix (RCHME’s Sixpenny Handley 43, Grinsell’s Handley 1), it was excavated between December 15th and 31st 1882. Prior to excavation, it was visible as a mound 52 feet in diameter and 4.5 feet maximum height. Excavation showed it to be surrounded by a ditch 5 feet wide at the top. At the centre was a wooden boat-shaped coffin, cut from a single trunk. Circa 4 feet 2 inches by 1 foot 9 inches, it was orientated northwest-southeast and contained a sigle cremation deposit. Pitt Rivers stated that the coffin rested in a pit (“hole”) circa 1 foot deep dug into the chalk below the mound. However, the published section appears to show the coffin placed in the top of a small primary mound of chalk rubble and earth. Other finds from the barrow mound included a flint knife, a flint axehead, 595 flint flakes and some potsherds. [NB this record formerly contained details of all barrows in the Scrubbity Coppice. These have now been recorded separately – see associated monument records]

(Centred ST 972178) Scrubbity Barrows (NR). Scrubbity Barrows; a group of round barrows all excavated, but most partially, by General Pitt-Rivers. Pitt-Rivers reconstituted the barrows which he dug. Details are as follows:-
(A) ST 97251788. Bowl barrow 52ft in diameter by 4ft high (Pitt-Rivers ix). It contained a primary crouched cremation in a boat-shaped tree-trunk coffin. A flint knife and axe and hundreds of flint flakes were found in the mound.

(B) ST 97231790. See ST 91 NE 93.
(C) ST 97221787. See ST 91 NE 94.
(D) ST 97211788. See ST 91 NE 95.
(E) ST 97211789. See ST 91 NE 96.
(F) ST 97251787. See ST 91 NE 97.
(G) ST 97171790. See ST 91 NE 98.
(H) ST 97171789. See ST 91 NE 99.
(J) ST 97201786. See ST 91 NE 100. (2-3)

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ST 92512070. A bowl barrow at Win Green Clump, 12 paces in diameter and 1 1/2 feet in height, is the ‘Beacnes hlawe’ (= Beacon Barrow) (1) mentioned in charters of AD 955 and 958 (2). It is shown on Colt-Hoare’s map. (1-3) ST 92512069 A small bowl barrow, 10.0m in diameter, and 0.5m high with a central mutilation; there is no visible ditch. It lies within the prominent circular beech clump on the summit of Win Green Hill.

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(ST 93892046) Mound (NAT). A mound, on Berwick Down, 16 paces in diameter and 3 1/2 feet high, is described by Grinsell in 1937 (2) as a ditched bowl barrow with three trees on the mound. In 1957, however, he refers to the OS published description of it as ‘mound’ and queries whether it is a barrow or a mound of recent date (3). It is visible on air-photographs mainly as a circular ditch. (2-4) A flat-topped barrow, 15.0m in diameter and varying from 0.5 to 1.4m in height above the east to west hill-slope. There are only traces of a ditch. ST 93892045. A bowl barrow on Berwick Drove. The flat-topped barrow mound is terraced into the slope. It measures 15 metres in diameter, up to 1 metre high on the downhill side and about 0.3 metres high on the uphill side. A slight depression in the top of the mound may represent unrecorded past excavation. The quarry ditch surrounding the barrow survives as a depression 3 metres wide and 0.4 metres deep, except on the western side where it is no longer visible. Scheduled.

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A Neolithic long barrow located south of Chettle House, and situated at the top of a gentle south-east facing slope on a low spur. Listed by RCHME as Chettle 16 and by Grinsell as Chettle I. Orientated east-northeast by west-southwest, RCHME described the mound as being 320 feet long, 65 feet wide and 8 feet high. The western end has suffered badly from plough damage. Two recorded episodes of excavations have only discovered secondary burials and objects, some suggested to be of early to middle Saxon in date. The barrow was dug into at the beginning of the 18th century, apparently by (or rather for) the Countess of Temple. According to Hutchins (1813), “an opening was made in the side of this barrow,...and beneath the level of the surface of the field a great quantity of human bones were found, and with them heads of spears, and relics of other warlike instruments, which were presented to the Earl of Pembroke, and are at this time at Wilton House” [note that this quote, taken from Banks 1900, differs slightly from that given by Warne]. Banks’ (1900) diary of 1767 differs slightly in detail. The barrow had been opened about 40 years previously, when “one opening at the Eastern end...carried down a little way below the surface of the real Ground, when he found many Bones, Brass heads of Spears and some Coin...The other, situate about one third of the whole Length of the Barrow, more to the westward, was never carried deep enough. so nothing was discovered in it.” Warne also quotes Hutchins as follows: “About 1776, the sheep having made a scrape on the side of this barrow, near the summit, and the earth having moulded away, a human skeleton was discovered: it lay on its back, was four feet long, and was quite perfect, though remarkably small, and quite even – judged to have been a female. It was not more than one foot beneath the sod.”

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A Neolithic long barrow, located on the boundary between Chettle and Tarrant Gunville (the boundary running along the length of the mound), on a gentle east-facing slope. Listed by RCHME as Cettle 15 and by Grinsell as Chettle II. Orientated southeast-northwest, RCHME described it as a mound 190 feet long, 65 fet wide and 9 feet high. An oval hollow 165 feet long, 48 feet wide and 2 feet deep along the northeastern side is presumed to represent a side ditch. A shallower hollow was just visible along the other side. Sometime before 1767, numerous human bones were found when part of the barrow was removed to make a grotto “for the gratification of the eccentric Bubb Doddington, first and only Lord melcombe” (Drew and Piggott 1936). According to Banks’ (1900) diary of 1767, “A small part of one end was within the pail that had been opend [sic], and a grotto made in the hollow. We were told that when it was opend a number of Bones were found. I was exceedinly [sic] desirous of opening the other end, which was in a sheep walk without the pails, but upon inquiring whose property it was, had the mortification to be told that it belongd [sic] to an estate now upon sale, the Owner of which was in London; was therefore obligd [sic] to give over all thoughts of it”. According to Hutchins (1813), the parish boundary also represented a property boundary, obe half of the barrow belonging to the Marquis of Buckingham. It was one end of his part that “was formerly taken into Lord Melcombe’s park [hence the “pails”], and was excavated to make a grotto: many human bones were dug out, but immediately interred again by his lordship’s orders.”

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ST 88551562. A Bronze Age bowl barrow, known as Folly Barrow, located on Bareden Down. The barrow mound measures 16 metres in diaemter and stands 2 metres high. It is surrounded by the remains of a ditch, now visible as a depression 2 metres wide and up to 0.3 metres deep. The barrow lies within an area of prehistoric field system which has been levelled by ploughing.

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A Bronze Age round barrow cemetery, comprising 1 bell barrow, 1 saucer barrow, 1 pond barrow, 5 disc barrows, and 10 bowl barrows. Most were excavated in the early 19th century by Colt Hoare, and several still stand as substantial earthworks. Seven of the barrows are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs (also described in SU 13 NW 106, 107, 109-114). Ten of the barrows are situated in a small wood and survive as earthworks. One of the barrows (also described in SU 13 NW 115) has been ploughed level but is not visible on aerial photographs. The barrow cemetery is situated on an east facing slope between 90m and 103m above OD. The barrows have a roughly east west alignment but do not have a neat linear arrangement. A round barrow (described in SU 13 NW 33) could be an outlier and is situated 140m to the south of the group. The Lake Down barrow cemetery is also situated 400m to the south of the barrow cemetery. Individual monument records for each barrow have been created, see SU 13 NW 98-114.

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A Bronze Age round barrow cemetery survives as earthworks on Lake Down. The cemetery comprises 10 round barrows; including bowl barrows, pond barrows and disc barrows. The cemetery was surveyed at a scale of 1:1000 in May 2009 as part of English Heritage’s Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. It was also included in the Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project, using aerial photographs. Several of the barrows were excavated by Mr Edward Duke of Lake House in the early 19th century, although it is difficult to relate his notes to the individual barrows. See the individual barrow records for further details.

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A Bronze Age bowl barrow, listed by Grinsell as Wilsford 87. The barrow was surveyed by RCHME in 1992. 36 metres in diameter and 4.4 metres high, it is surrounded by a ditch and slight external bank. The mound profile is stepped, suggestive of a second conical mound having been built on top of the original more rounded Bronze Age mound. The sharp profile of the ditch suggests that this too is of recent origin and probably provided the material for the conical mound, although the ditch too may have prehistoric origins. The second mound was probably constructed to provide a prospect from which to admire the landscaped view around Lake House (SU 13 NW 37, 81). The RCHME survey also noted three further barrows in the vicinity (SU 13 NW 93-5). Scheduled. The barrow has been recorded on aerial photographs.

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A Bronze Age round barrow, suggested to be a bowl barrow, is one of a pair of mounds situated on Frome Hill, 520 metres west of Frome Farm. The barrow mound, which is scheduled and has been taken out of cultivation, measures 16 metres in diameter and 1.8 metres high. Aerial photography and ground survey have been unable to confirm the presence of a surrounding ditch, although it seems probable that one exists.

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A probable disc barrow, listed by Grinsell as Winterborne St Martin 3 (in his list of bowl barrows) and by RCHME as Winterborne St Martin 111. Part of a barrow cemetery (see SY 69 SW 49 and associated monuments), in 1981 the Ordnance Survey recorded it as a mound 14 metres in diameter and circa 0.5 metres high, surrounded by an outer bank enclosing an area 30 metres in diameter (measured from the top of the bank) The bank was only visible as an earthwork on the south and east sides only. RCHME had previously noted a ring ditch surrounding the mound visible on air photographs as a cropmark circa 80 feet in diameter. This barrow was originally recorded as part of SY 69 SW 49. That record should be consulted for additional sources and information.

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A group of five round barrows running in an irregular east-west line on the crest of a ridge immediately south of the A35 (Roman road RR 4f). They are listed by Grinsell as Winterborne St Martin 6, 7, 8, 8c and 8d, and by RCHME as Winterborne St Martin 114-118. RCHME suggest that two of this group were excavated by Sydenham and Warne in 1839-40 (see SY 69 SW 90 and 91), whereas Grinsell attributed these excavations to the Rew barrow group (SY 69 SW 49 and associated monuments). Both RCHME and Grinsell note that 2 of the barrows in this Third Milestone group were excavated by E Cunnington in 1885, though again it is not clear which barrows he actually dug into. Grinsell assigned these excavations different barrow numbers (Winterborne ST Martin 8a and 8b) whilst acknowledging that it was probably 2 of the barrows already recorded by him that had been dug into (!). Cunnington found that both of the barrows had been dug into previously, perhaps by Sydenham and Warne. One contained the remains of a large cairn (a central cairn of flints covered by earth and chalk was a common feature of barrows excavated in the vicinity by Sydenham and Warne) plus two inhumations and sherds of three pottery vessels. The other contained a smaller cairn, within which were “parts of a skeleton”. All 5 barrows were previously recorded here (see description). All have now been recorded separately (see associated monument records).

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(SY 61408968) Burial Chamber (NR)(rems of) (NAT). (1) SY 61418970. An almost destroyed long barrow, possibly oriented
east to west with two large stones at the east end the remains of a mound. (2) Stones, possibly remains of chambered long barrow (SY 61408968) marked `cromlech` on some maps lie 400 ft above OD on a steep south east facing slope, now in pasture. One large sarsen, an iregular oblong 8 ft by 4 3/4 ft and 1 1/4 ft above ground, lies in the shoulder of a rounded scarp some 2 ft high. A second sarsen, 4 ft across and 1 ft 8 ins deep, projects from the scarp 5 ft to the east. Three small boulders can be seen between these large stones. Warne listed this site among `destroyed cromlechs` describing `one large stone apparently the capstone with two or three others.... in a confused heap`.The stones may not be in situ since the area was once part of the arable fields of Winterbourne Steepleton and the scarp is in part a lynchet ploughed down since enclosure.(3) SY 61408967. The two large stones noted by RCHM (3) are all that remain; they measure 2.7m by 1.5m. by 0.7m. and 1.4m. by by 0.6m. The scarp has been ploughed continuously and is now barely discernible. Published Survey (1:2500) Correct (4) The site lies at SY 6140 8967, on the edge of a dry valley which runs into the valley of the South Winterbourne, northeast of Coombe Farm. The remains comprise a slight, much ploughed, ovoid mound, orientated NE-SW, 17m long and 13m wide. Two large, recumbent sarsens lie on the south edge of the mound, as described by authy 4. The field has evidently been ploughed for many years: it once formed part of the open fields of Winterbourne Steepleton and it was arable land in the mid-19th century (Winterbourne Steepleton tithe map and award, 1841) (5). The site was surveyed using differential GPS at a scale of 1: 200 as part of a survey of the long barrows on the South Dorset Ridgeway carried out by English Heritage and the Ridgeway Survey Group (6).

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(Centred at SY 65138798) Tumuli (NR) (twice) (1)
Four Barrow Hill Group. Six barrows, including two probable bells in south-west to north-east line on top of a broad spur.
All have been ploughed.
‘A’ Bowl (?) (65078787). Diam. 78 ft., ht. 4 1/2 ft.
‘B’ Bowl (?) (65108793) 60 yds. N.E. of ‘A’ Diam. 93 ft., ht. 5 ft.
‘C’ Bell (?) (65138798) 70 yds. N.E. of ‘B’ Diam. 97 ft., ht. 6 ft.
Ditch-circle, about 190 ft. in diam., visible on V.A.P. CPE/UK 1934, 3091.
‘D’ Bowl (?) (65148795) immediately adjacent to ‘C’ on S.E. Ploughed almost flat.
‘E’ Bowl (?) (65148804) 70 yds. N. of ‘C’ Diam. 106 ft., ht. 6 ft. Crossed by hedge.
‘F’. Bell (?) (65188808) 60 yds. N.E. of ‘E’. Ploughed almost flat. Ditch 140 ft. in diam., apparently separated from mound by berm about 15 ft. wide, visible on V.A.P. CPE/UK 1934, 3091. (2-4)
‘A’ SY 65068787. Bowl barrow, diameter approximately 30.0m, height 1.0m.
‘B’ SY 65098792. Bowl barrow, diameter approximately 30.0m, height 1.3m.
‘C’ SY 65138797. Bell (?) barrow, diameter approximately 40.0m, height 2.4m. Large size suggests a bell but there is no trace of berm nor ditch.
‘D’ No visible remains – ploughed out.
‘E’ SY 65158803. Bowl barrow, diameter approximately 40.0m, height 2.5m.
‘F’ SY 65178808. Bell (?) barrow, ploughed almost flat, diameter 28.0m approximately, height 0.3m, no trace of berm.
All the barrows are in arable and have been ploughed. None has a visible ditch.

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A group of 6 bowl barrows located at Rew, listed by Grinsell as Winterborne St Martin 2, 2a, 3, 3a, 4 and 5, and by RCHME as Winterborne St Martin 108-113. All were previously described as part of this record (see description) but have now been recorded individually (see associated monument records). According to RCHME, 2 of these barrows (including SY 69 SW 50) were excavated in 1839-40 by Sydenham. One is Grinsell’s Winterborne St Martin 5a and Winterborne Steepleton 4c. In fact, as Grinsell has noted, the latter cannot be part of this group if Sydenham’s locational information is accurate (it is Sydenham’s number 5). Grinsell instead regards all of his Winterborne St Martin 5a-c as probably being identifiable with any of the Rew group (again including SY 69 SW 50, a little to the south) whereas RCHME suggest that 5b (SY 69 SW 91) and 5c (SY 69 SW 90) probably fall within the nearby “Third Milestone Group” (see SY 69 SW 51 and associated records).

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A bell barrow, part of a cluster of monuments located north of Maiden Castle (see associated monument records). The barrow is listed by Grinsell as Winterborne Monkton 1b and by RCHME as Winterborne Monkton 6. Described by Grinsell as the largest bell barrow in Dorset, in 1980 the Ordnance Survey measured it at 7 metres high, with a mound 56 metres in diameter separated from the ditch by a berm 5 metres wide, the overall diameter of the monument being circa 76 metres. It was also noted that “on the NE side the ditch appears to have been destroyed and a ‘false ditch’ created by modern ploughing”. Excavation in 1862 found a stone cist containing an inhumation in the top of the mound. A Romano-British date has been assumed for this secondary burial. RCHME noted that the field name “Great Barrow Field” probably referred to this barrow. The barrow is scheduled. This monument was formerly described as part of SY 68 NE 26. That record should be consulted for additional sources and information.

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(SY 68548844) Herringston Barrow (NR) (SY 68478842) Tumulus (NR) (1)
‘A’ Bowl Barrow (SY 68498843) on W-E ridge above 300 ft. Diam. 38 ft., ht. 5 1/2 ft. Slightly flattened on top and crossed by
boundary with former parish of Fordington. ‘B’ Herringston Barrow, bowl barrow (SY 68548844) Diam about 77 ft., Ht. 6
ft. Much damaged, and crossed by same boundary as the above. Opened in 1880 by Cunnington who found a primary (?) contracted
inhumation under a cairn, in which was possibly a cremation with part of a flint or stone axe. (2-3)
‘A’ SY 68478842. Bowl barrow, diameter 11.0m, height 1.6m No visible ditch.
‘B’ SY 68548844.An elongated mound known as Herringston Barrow, impossible to equate with the RCHM description but so mutilated and spread that it is difficult to determine its function and precise limits. It is 66.0m long and 15.0m wide at its maximum, and height 1.5m; a boundary bank runs along its long axis (approximately E-W). It may be the remnants of a severely mutilated long barrow.
‘C’ SY 68538842. A ploughed down mound in arable – a probable bowl barrow. Diameter 20.0m approximately, height 0.8m.
‘A’ and ‘C’ re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD.
‘B’ surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD.(4)

Conygar Hill Hengiform Ring

Details of Hengiform ring on Pastscape – Monument No. 1431045

Hengiform ring to the north of Conygar Hill excavated in 1987 in advance of the construction of the Dorchester By-pass. It lies falsecrested below steeper gradients of the east-west ridge and commanded uninterrupted views to the north and west. The ring is 15m in diameter, and had 8 kidney-shaped pits, generally 3m long, 2m wide, and 0.5m deep. One contained a cenral post-hole 0.85m in diameter and 0.5m deep. The pits enclosed a setting of eight posts, each circa 0.85m dwide and 0.15m deep. Sherds of Peterborough Ware were present in the upper fills, with antler and animal bones in the basal fills.

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Two bowl barrows aligned east-west on Conygar Hill. The barrows each have a mound composed of earth and chalk, with maximum dimensions of 29 metres and 30 metres in diameter respectively and about 3 metres in height. Each mound is surrounded by a quarry ditch which have become infilled over the years, but each will survive as a buried feature 3 metres wide. The barrows were partially excavated by E Cunnington in the late 19th century. The eastern barrow was found to contain a primary contracted inhumation burial associated with a food vessel and six flint arrowheads. Three secondary cremations associated with a bucket urn lay above a large block of Portland limestone. The western barrow contained an inhumation and cremation burials. The finds are now held in Dorset County Museum. Scheduled.

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A large round barrow abutting the enclosure bank of the Mount Pleasant henge (SY 78 NW 3) on its western side. The barrow has been damaged to a certain extent by the encroachment of gardens, and it is covered by a coppice of trees. The only known excavation occurred in 1970-71, when parts of the ditch and mound were examined in the course of work focused primarily on the henge. This suggested that the barrow mound had been 30 metres in diameter and 4 metres high, on top of a henge enclosure bank itself circa 4 metres high. On the north and east sides at least the barrow was surrounded by a penannular ditch which featured at least one causeway and stopped short of the main henge enclosure ditch. An antler pick from the primary fill of the ditch produced a radiocarbon date in the early 3rd millennium BC (calibrated), and was presumed by the excavator to represent a residual item associated with the henge rather than the barrow’s construction. However, Sparey-Green (1994) has argued that on the basis of the stratigraphical evidence presented in Wainwright’s (1979) excavation report, the barrow’s ditch may well pre-date the henge ditch, and thus be of later Neolithic origin. Flints plus a Beaker sherd and a Bronze Age sherd were also found. Re-evaluation of the Conquer Barrow’s relationship with Mount Pleasant, following detailed study of aerial photographs of the latter, supports the idea that the ditch at least may have pre-dated the henge enclosure.

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A large henge enclosure, partially extant as an earthwork, located on the southeast side of Dorchester. The site comprises a ditch and outer bank defining an irregular sub-oval area, the enclosure circuit being interrupted by four entrances. The maximum external diameter of the site is around 370 metres. Some excavation was undertaken in 1970-71 by G Wainwright. The principal features noted in the interior were a substantial circular post-hole structure comprising five concentric circles of post holes within a ditch circa 43 metres in diameter. The ditch was open to the north. In a second phase, the timber structures appear to have been replaced by central cove-like setting of standing stones. The main enclosure earthworks were themselves supplemented by construction of a palisade trench within and concentric to the inner side of the ditch. This palisade featured just two very narrow entrance gaps, each defined by massive post holes. The palisade enclosed an area of circa 245 metres by 270 metres. Analysis of aerial photographs has revealed more detail, including at least one additional entrance, a possible earlier phase of enclosure marked out by pits, evidence that part of the henge bank was heightened, traces of external ditches, and a possible approach from the River Frome to the northeast. Finds from Wainwright’s excavations included Grooved Ware sherds from primary levels in the henge ditch. Slightly later were Beaker sherds and a decorated flat bronze axe from the north terminal of the ditch. Sporadic post-Bronze Age activity included a circular Iron Age structure and two Saxon burials. Both burials were extended inhumations. One was accompanied by an iron knife and may be 7th century in date.The Conquer Barrow (SY 78 NW 3) overlies the henge earthworks on the western side.

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Two Bronze Age bowl barrows visible as earthworks on Whitcombe Hill. The one to the south west has a diameter of 28 metres and a height of 3 metres. It has a flat top with a diameter of 4 metres. The barrow is thickly overgrown and bisected by a parish boundary bank. The second barrow to the north east has been ploughed-down. It has an approximate diameter of 20 metres and a maximum height of 1 metre. Scheduled.

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Bronze Age bowl barrow on Black Down. It measures 8m meters in diameter and 0.35 meters high. Grinsell noted the presence of cross trenches, which he suggested either represented an excavation, or the use of the barrow as a windmill mound. Thus it may have been the barrow excavated by Cunnington in 1878. However, Cunnington described that barrow as being about 100 yards north of the Hardy Monument, which this barrow is not and there is no known barrow is 100 yards north of the Hardy Monument. Cunnington is usually presumed to have excavated barrow SY 68 NW 122, which is the right distance from the monument, but south rather than north. Part of a larger barrow cemetery. Scheduled.

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Bronze Age bowl barrow (Winterborne St Martin 141) located within the area enclosed by Maiden Castle hillfort (SY 68 NE 7), towards the western end of its interior. It is still extant as an earthwork 20 metres in diameter and 0.7 metres high. It has a central depression indicative of early excavation, but no record of any such activity survives. However, it has been suggested by Mortimer Wheeler that the barrow (SY 68 NE 105) which Cunnington claimed to have excavated at “the East end” of Maiden Castle was in fact this one.

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Neolithic long mound some 546 metres in length, comprising a bank of earth between two parallel ditches. The ditches are 19.5 metres apart. It follows a slightly curving east-west course across the interior of Maiden Castle. Richard Bradley had suggested that the section of the bank barrow immediately west of the earliest Iron Age rampart (and thus just outside the causewayed enclosure (SY 68 NE 7)) had originally been a more conventional long barrow before being considerably extended in both directions. The RCHME survey appears to support this: this section of the barrow, 65 metres long and 15 metres wide, is considerably higher than the remainder of the monument. However, only excavation could demonstrate chronological precedence for any given section of the monument. The three elements of the monument also show differing alignments, and are separated by sections without a bank. The contour survey shows that for the whole of its length the barrow is set on a false crest, varying from some 10 to 20 metres north of the summit of the ridge, suggesting that it was deliberately. It appears not to have performed a funerary function, but may have acted rather as a symbolic barrier or territorial divide. It has been excavated on at least three occasions – by Mortimer Wheeler in the mid-1930s, by RJC Atkinson in 1951, and by N Sharples in 1985-6. It was surveyed by RCHME in 1984-5 by RCHME. Wheeler encountered some post holes, which he felt were Neolithic and therefore associated with the barrow structure. Two intrusive Saxon inhumations were also found just below the surface at the east end of the barrow. One was a supine burial with its head to the west. Grave goods including a seax and knife were recovered and indicate a seventh or eigth-century date for this burial. The second burial had been mutilated and dismembered, and did not have any grave goods. Radiocarbon dating suggests a 7th-9th century date for this burial.

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A long barrow extant as an earthwork and located immediately northwest of Maiden Castle (SY 68 NE 7 and associated records), on the northeast-facing slope of a ridge, overlooking the Frome valley. The barrow is listed by Grinsell as Winterborne Monkton 1 and by RCHME as Winterborne Monkton 3. There is no record of any excavation having been undertaken. Orientated north northwest – south southeast, in 1980 the Ordnance Survey recorded it as a mound 27 metres by 9 metres and surviving to a maximum height of 0.5 metres on the downhill side, with no visible traces of ditches. In 1955, an Ordnance Survey field investigator had described the mound then as being 36 metres long and 18 metres wide, with a ditch 5 metres wide and 0.4 metres deep on the north side. The ditch on the south side was not visible. The higher, broader end was to the southeast where it measured up to 1.7 metres high. Plough damage was already well-advanced, and the mound appeared to have a “heavy chalk content throughout...and at the eastern end there is a sizeable heap of large flint nodules as though a cairn had been disturbed.Among the flints are small pieces of “alien” sandstone conglomerate and fragments of calcined bone”. Air photographs taken in the 1930s appear to show a narrow mound with unusually tapered ends, though this may have been a product of ploughing and other agricultural activity. Scheduled.

Maiden Castle Causewayed Enclosure

Details of causewayed enclosure on Pastscape – Monument No. 1537734

The Early Neolithic causewayed enclosure at Maiden Castle occupies only the eastern part of the hill, and has an approximate area of 8 hectares, making it one of the larger examples in England. It is overlain by a large Iron Age hillfort which has restricted investigation of the Neolithic remains. The west side of the Neolithic enclosure is overlain by the long mound, a 500 metre-long earthwork. Wheeler identified that the earliest phase of the hillfort followed the line of two concentric circuits of causewayed ditch. The inner ditch contained several episodes of filling and substantial numbers of artefacts. In 1985-6 surveys of the hill and its environs raised the possibility that a north-east to south-west earthwork running into the west hillfort entrance may originally have been a freestanding cross-ridge dyke. A third, outermost Neolithic ditch may also exist 30 metres outside the known outer ditch. A further `Neolithic mound’ of unknown extent may lie yet farther east. Early Neolithic pits around the eastern hillfort entrance and the east end of the long mound, were shown to extend south-west of the hillfort. The manufacture of flint axeheads and other large core tools on the site was confirmed. The assemblages from nearby sites strongly suggest that axehead-making was focused at Maiden Castle. Recent research has concluded that the enclosure at Maiden Castle began to be built probably in the 3550s or 3540s cal BC. It is possible that the two circuits were dug in the same year, almost certainly within a single generation. The enclosure ditches filled up quickly, both ditches were filled probably by 3550-3530 cal BC. The use of the enclosure was remarkably short, lasting no more than a single generation. Indeed the outer ditch may have been infilled possibly in less than a year. It is probable that the outer ditch of the causewayed enclosure had been dug and had filled up by the time the long mound was constructed.

Details of one barrow on Pastscape – Monument No. 1457331

A Bronze Age bowl barrow on Grimstone Down. It is part of a barrow cemetery comprising eight barrows and survives as an elongated earthwork measuring 17 metres northeast-southwest by 12.8 metres northwest to southeast and about 1.6 metres high. The barrow is listed as Stratton Number 4 by Grinsell (1959), Barrow Number 15a by RCHME (1952) and as Barrow F by the Ordnance Survey.

Details of one barrow on Pastscape – Monument No. 453207

A Bronze Age barrow, possibly a bowl barrow, on Grimstone Down. It is part of a barrow cemetery comprising eight barrows and survives as an earthwork up to 0.4 metres high, surrounded by a ditch 2 metres wide by 0.2 metres deep. The barrow is listed as Barrow Number 15b by RCHME (1952) and as Barrow H by the Ordnance Survey. It was not recorded by Grinsell (1959).

Details of Settlement on Pastscape

(Centred SY 644956) Settlement (NR). (1)
A settlement on Grimstone Down consisting of traces of Celtic fields covering more than 100 acres. Towards the centre of the area, the fields become more clearly defined and between the field banks several hollowed tracks converge on a series of smaller enclosures; these show no traces of dwellings but probably represent the position of the main settlement (see plan). To the east of the dyke (SY 69 NW 39) are further remains of a Celtic field system extending some distance to the south. (2)
The excavation for a reservoir on Grimstone Down in 1950 at SY 64629530 revealed that the earthworks were of lynchet construction rather than the remains of deliberately constructed banks. The only internal feature observed was a small shallow pit (or trench?) near the centre of the east face of the excavation, which contained pottery sherds. The majority of sherds, however, were found in the excavation spoil and appeared to be all of Iron Age ‘C’ type with the exception of a few Iron Age ‘A’ and possibly ‘B’ sherds. About 40 yds from the south-east corner of the reservoir, the pumping-main trench sectioned what appeared to be an ancient trackway from the settlement, running a few yards west of, and parallel to the modern trace to Jackman’s Cross. (3)
SY 64719552. Late Romano-British pottery was found during 1969-70 in material brought to the surface of a trench dug for repairing the water-main on Grimstone Down. The trench revealed at one point, a layer of flint which coincided with field banks, still intact to the north and south. Three hundred sherds of Romano-British coarse ware, two sherds of New Forest ware, twenty-one nails and a small fragment of roof-tile were found embedded in the surface of the flint layer. No evidence of earlier occupation was found below the layer and it was suggested that the flint represented the scattering of an earlier field bank in the 4th century by Romano-British occupation. (4)

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(SY 72388421; SY 72438421) Tumuli (NR) (1)
‘A’ (SY 72388421) Bowl barrow, circa 45ft in diameter and 1.5ft high on crest of ridge.
‘B’ (SY 72438421) Ploughed bowl barrow of uncertain diameter but 1ft high.
Grinsell and RCHM stated that one of these barrows was probably Tumulus No 5 excavated by Warne circa 1866 at Osmington Charity Down on the Ridgeway. Warne discovered a primary cremation in a barrel-shaped urn ornamented with a chevron pattern (destroyed on exposure) which had been placed in a central cavity, 18 ins. deep, cut into the natural chalk. Two contracted secondary inhumations were also found; one situated 4ft from the summit of the mound “enclosed in a rude dome of well packed flints” and the other immediately below the surface of the barrow. (2-4)
‘A’ SY 72378421. Bowl barrow, diameter approximately 22.0m, height 1.0m. No visible ditch.
‘B’ SY 72438421. Bowl barrow, diameter approximately 22.0m, height 1.2m. No visible ditch.
Both barrows lie in arable and are considerably ploughed down.