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Details of Barrow on Pastscape

(SY 72788909) Sandy Barrow (NR) (1) This mound has the appearance of a bell barrow. It is overgrown including the berm which is 5.0m wide, is 24.0m. Height of mound about 2.7m high. Cut away on the west side by a road. (2) Sandy Barrow, bowl barrow (SY 72788909). On level site above 200 ft. Diam about 85 ft, ht about 9 ft. Cut on west by lane and densely overgrown. (3,4)
‘Sandy Barrow’, name unconfirmed, is generally as described by Auth 3. The diameter is 26.0m and height about 2.7m. It is mutilated and spread on the south.
Published survey (1:2500) revised. (5)

Details of Barrows on Pastscape

(Centred SY 790842) Five Marys (Tumuli) (NR) (seven shown) (1)
A group of barrows known as the Five Marys and shown as ‘Five Meers’ (boundary marks) on Taylor’s Map of Dorset 1765. (See Concordance card for individual barrows and details). Two of the barrows were excavated under the direction of the exiled Duchess of Berri who resided at Lulworth Castle after the dethronement of Charles X of France (in 1830). In one barrow, a deep chalk-cut grave contained two adult inhumations (male and female in a ‘sitting’ (contracted) position with stag antlers placed on each shoulder of both burials. In the other barrow were the remains of a similar inhumation (male) with stag antlers overlying each shoulder, also contained within a chalk-cut grave (2,3,6).
An Abercromby Type 4 Deverel Group 2 urn containing cremated bone was also found. Now in Dorchester Museum (4). RCHM suggest that ‘A’ and ‘C’ (see Concordance) were the two barrows excavated. (2-6) See Concordance card. (7)

The Five Marys (name not confirmed) – a group of barrows centred SY 79038420.
‘A’ SY 78958421. Bowl barrow, damaged by modern banks with traces of a ditch visible on the north-east. Diameter of mound 24.0m. height 3.2m., with ditch 5.0m. wide where visible.
‘B’ SY 79008421. Bell barrow with overall diameter of 30.0m., and height 3.3m. Ditch. 4.0m. wide, is visible on all except south side. Berm 1.0m. wide.
‘C’ SY 79038421. Bell barrow: diameter 18.0m. and height 3.0m., with a berm 1.0m. wide. There are faint and unsurveyable traces of a ditch.
‘D’ SY 79068420. Bowl barrow: diameter 17.0m. and height 1.6m., with a central excavation hollow 9.0m. in diameter. Faint and unsurveyable traces of a ditch.
‘E’ No visible remains.
‘F’ SY 79108420. Barrow with a possible berm visible on west side only which may be mutilation; on all other sides resembles a bowl. Diameter overall 26.0m., height 2.2m., with a ditch 4.5m. wide visible on all sides except the south.
‘G’ SY 79058420. A possible barrow. An irregular-shaped mound out of line with the other barrows in this group; very mutilated, with excavation hollow. Diameter 14.0m., height 1.3m. No visible ditch.
The probable pond barrow at SY 79008421 was not found.
Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. (8)

Details of Barrows on Pastscape

(Centred SY 806863) Tumuli (NR) (four shown) (1)

Two further barrows are shown at ‘E’ – SY 80648630 and ‘F’ – SY 80648628. (2)
A group of six heather- covered mounds, probably all bowl barrows, without berm or ditch, are situated on Blacknoll Hill.
No surface finds were made.

‘A’ – SY 80608632. Mutilated bowl barrow, 17.5m diameter and 2.0m high surmounted by an OS triangulation station. A large trench has been cut in the north half of the mound, probably for military purposes.
‘B’ – SY 80628630. Bowl barrow, 10.5m diameter and 1.9m high is mutilated at the extreme edge of the south quadrant by a small slit trench.
‘C’ – SY 80658630. Bowl barrow, 10.0m diameter and 1.8m high appears to be unmutilated.
‘D’ – SY 80668628. Irregular bowl barrow, approx 15.0m diamter; the height of the east quadrant being 0.8m and that on the west, 2.4m high. The northern extremity has been defaced by a shallow pit dug against the barrow.
‘E’ – SY 80648630. Elongated bowl barrow; the north east – south west axis measures 13.0m and the north west – south east axis 10.5m with a height of 1.7m. Slight mutilation occurs on the south west and at the extreme edge of the south quadrant where a shallow pit has been dug.
‘F’ – SY 80658628. A low circular platform, possibly a bowl barrow, approx 9.5m diameter, which merges into the general ground level on the west side but on the east has a height of 1.0m. There is a slight depression in the south quadrant.

There are numberous small pits on the top of the hill, some of which may have a military origin, anothers probably the result of gravel digging. (3)
Five much disturbed bowl barrows on Blackholl. (4)

‘A’ – (42) SY 80608633. Bowl barrow, about 63ft diameter and 8ft high with trigonometrical station of top. Grinsell No 4.
‘B’ – (43) SY 80628631. Bowl barrow, 33ft diameter and 5ft high. Grinsell No 5.
‘E’ – (44) SY 80658630. Bowl barrow, about 35 ft diameter and 5 1/2ft high. Grinsell No 6.
‘C’ – (45) SY 8066828. Bowl barrow, 33ft diameter and 5 ft high. Grinsell No 7.
‘D’ – SY 80688627. (?) Bowl barrow, 48ft diameter and 8ft high, 20 yds south-east of Barrow ‘C’. Grinsell No 12.

(This mound may be one of the barrows ‘E’ and ‘F’ seen by N.V Quinnell, Authy,3, in 1952). (5)

SY 866863. Five round barrows on Blacknoll Hill. Scheduled. (6)
The bowl barrows now gorse covered approximate to the descriptions and measurements of Authority (3) excepting the possible traces of ditches (see plan).
Corrected N.G.R.’s are as follows:-
‘A’. – SY 80608632; ‘B’ – SY 80618631; ‘C’ – SY 80648630; ‘D’ – SY 80658629; ‘E’ – SY 80638631; ‘F’ – SY 80628629;

Surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (7)

Details of Barrows on Pastscape

A bell barrow and two bowl barrows situated on a natural hill known as Old Knowle. The bell barrow is situated on the western side of the group. It has a central mound composed of sand, earth and turf, with maximum dimensions of 25 metres in diameter and approximately 3 metres in height. The mound has a hollow 6 metres by 7 metres on the top, which may indicate antiquarian excavation. The mound is surrounded by a berm and a ditch from which material was quarried for the construction of the mound. The ditch is visible as a depression 7 metres wide, although it is partly overlain by a later bank which may represent a tree clump enclosure. The two bowl barrows are situated to the east of the bell barrow and are aligned north west by south east. The north western bowl barrow has a mound with maximum dimensions of 16 metres in diameter and approximately 2 metres in height. This is surrounded by a quarry ditch 2 metres wide and approximatey 0.35 metres deep. The south eastern bowl barrow has a mound 8 metres in diameter and approximately 0.8 metres high. This is known to be surrounded by a quarry ditch visible in the 1960s. The ditch has since become infilled but will survive as a buried feature 1.5 metres wide. Scheduled.

(Centred SY 799877) Tumuli (NR) (Three shown). (1) Three round barrows, damaged by tree-felling, are situated on Old Knowle:

`A’ Bell (79888778). Diam about 90 ft, ht 11 ft, with berm about 7 ft wide. Large tree-clump enclosure lies within and obscures original, probably large, ditch. Top hollowed
`B’ Ditched bowl (79938778) 55 yds E of (A). Diam 41 ft, hit 6 ft, with ditch 8 ft wide.
`C’ Ditched bowl (?) (79938776) 35 yds S of (B). Diam 13 ft ht 2 ft.
`A’ SY 79888777. Bell barrow of overall diameter 46.0m, height 4.8m maximum above ditch. Maximum width of berm 3.0m, but average 2.0 – 2.5m. Tree-clump enclosure bank and ditch 6.5m wide overall; bank 1.0m high and ditch 0.5m deep. Mound damaged on W side. Trees now removed. Very prominently sited on knoll-top.
`B’ SY 79938778. Ditched bowl-barrow; flat-topped and well preserved.
Diameter 18.5m overall, height 2.4m. Ditch 3.0m wide and 0.6m deep.
`C’ SY 79938776. Bowl barrow with a faint ditch 1.3m wide and 0.3m deep extending for 11.0m on the north side. Diameter of mound 6.5m and height 0.8m. Condition fair.
Published Surveys (1:2500) revised on MSD. (4)

Details of Twin-barrow on Pastscape

(SY 88048412) Tumulus (NR) (1) A typical twin-barrow, both mounds being enclosed in an oval ditch. There is no berm except between the mounds. (2)
A twin-barrow with surrounding oval ditch, and line of orientation NW-SE. The NW barrow has a diameter of 13.0 metres, with a height of 1.8 metres. The SE barrow has a diameter of 14.5 metres, with a height of 1.4 metres. No surrounding berms. The berm between the mounds is 0.9 metres high, and 1.5 metres wide at its narrowest point. The surrounding ditch averages 1.7 metres in width and 0.4 metres in depth. Both mounds and ditch are heather and bracken covered, and there are no signs of excavation. (3)
SY 88048412. Ditched double bowl barrow of oval shape with two crests in profile. The length is 105ft. north west – south east, 69ft. and 62ft. wide beneath crests and respectively 6ft. and 7 1/2ft. high.The ditch, about 10ft. wide, surrounds the whole. (4) SY 880841. Round barrow on Povington Heath. Scheduled. (5) A twin barrow as measured and described by Authority (3), the ditch being slightly waisted between the barrows (see illustration card). Surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (6)

Details of logboat on Pastscape

“The remains of a large canoe or barge hollowed out from the trunk of an entire tree”, which Brannon informs us was found, with other naval remains, in the bed of the River Frome between Wareham and Stoborough. (1) (SY9286. Boat sited from auth 1 and OS 2500 1969 to the area between Wareham and Stoborough.) (2)

Details of Woolsbarrow on Pastscape

Woolsbarrow (SY 893925) on Bloxworth Heath and now in a State Forest midway between the Sherford River and a tributary of the Piddle, is the smallest hill-fort in South-east Dorset. Its anomalous form makes its date uncertain. A single bank with inner ditch surrounds a gravel knoll some 20ft below its flat top, enclosing an area of some 2 1/4 acres. Though the highest point is only 220ft above Ordnance Datum it dominates the surrounding heathland, which falls sharply on all sides except on the SE, where a simple gap entrance leads to a natural saddle connecting the hilltop with a lower spur. The whole site has been much disturbed. Most of the interior has been quarried away to the depth of some feet, exposing a well-formed podsol, but there is no evidence that a bank ever stood on the edge of the inner scarp. The mounds in the SW and NE angles are probably no more than the residue of quarrying; the NE mound was dug by a Mr Groves of Wareham without result (Warne, Ancient Dorset (1872), 87). Soil slip has largely filled the ditch and the bank, at its most prominent, is about 18ft across and only 2 1/2ft above the ditch bottom. A modern trackway obscures the original form of the entrance. The `tumuli’ shown on some maps around the site are probably natural, the result of differential erosion.

(Centred SY 893925) Woolsbarrow (Camp) (NR)
(SY 89389258) Tumulus (NR)
(SY 891925; SY 892924) Tumuli (NR) (twice) (1)

Woolsbarrow (SY 893925) on Bloxworth Heath and now in a State Forest midway between the Sherford River and a tributary of the Piddle, is the smallest hill-fort in South-east Dorset. Its anomalous form makes its date uncertain.
A single bank with inner ditch surrounds a gravel knoll some 20ft below its flat top, enclosing an area of some 2 1/4 acres. Though the highest point is only 220ft above Ordnance Datum it dominates the surrounding heathland, which falls sharply on all sides except on the SE, where a simple gap entrance leads to a natural saddle connecting the hilltop with a lower spur.
The whole site has been much disturbed. Most of the interior has been quarried away to the depth of some feet, exposing a well-formed podsol, but there is no evidence that a bank ever stood on the edge of the inner scarp. The mounds in the SW and NE angles are probably no more than the residue of quarrying; the NE mound was dug by a Mr Groves of Wareham without result (Warne, Ancient Dorset (1872), 87). Soil slip has largely filled the ditch and the bank, at its most prominent, is about 18ft across and only 2 1/2ft above the ditch bottom. A modern trackway obscures the original form of the entrance. The `tumuli’ shown on some maps around the site are probably natural, the result of differential erosion. (2)
“SY 894926 Woolsbarrow camp ramparts. Scheduled”. (3) (SY89319254) Woolsbarrow (NAT) Earthwork (NR) (4)
This hill-fort is now heavily covered by scrub and conifers. About 5.0 to 6.0 metres below the plateau top to the hillside has been scarped to form a ditch up to 2.0 metres wide, with a counterscarp bank 3.0 metres wide and 0.8 metres high. This survives around half of the perimeter, the remainder now appearing as a terrace. The `tumuli’ shown on the O.S. 25” 1902 but omitted from the 1954 and subsequent editions, are natural gravel knolls of varying shapes and sizes. Revised at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (5)

Details of Barrow on Pastscape

(Name centred SY 904949) Cold Barrow (NAT) (1) (SY 90479505) A mound, situated on the highest point of a prominent knoll shown as a 200ft. contour on OS maps and at its northern tip. The mound is roughly circular 21ft. in diameter, 2ft. high and 9ft. across its flat top. (2)
The natural knoll probably gave rise to the name Cold Barrow, which is now densely covered by a fir plantation which could not be penetrated.
Several natural mounds in the area, typical of the local geology, have a barrow like appearance, and the mound described in authority 2 may possibly fall into the same category. (3) SY 90479505. ‘Cold Barrow’, bowl (?) barrow. (dimensions as given by Authy.2). (4)
SY 90459503. Cold Barrow (name not confirmed), a mound as described (2), possibly a small barrow. In conifer plantation. Surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (5)

Details of Barrows on Pastscape

The monument includes a group of eight bowl barrows comprising a round barrow cemetery, situated on a ridge overlooking Poole Harbour to the south east and with views to the Purbeck Hills to the south. The barrows, which are aligned north east-south west, each have a mound composed of earth, sand and turf, with maximum dimensions of between 10-25 metres in diameter and circa 0.2-0.8 metres in height. The mounds are each surrounded by a ditch from which material was quarried during the construction of the monument. The ditches have become infilled over the years, but each will survive as a buried feature circa 1.5-2 metres wide. Scheduled.

Seven Barrows, group of eight barrows, all but (’F’) in a near-straight line SW-NE on the summit of a small but sharply-defined heathland ridge above the 100ft contour. A ninth possibly existed at ‘J’-SY 91168857 but no trace remains. Probably all but (13) were dug into by Shipp and Durden in 1844 without result (C.T.D.,cpf, No 1).

A-(8) Bowl (91148864) Diam. 66ft. ht. 3 1/2ft. Top markedly flat, apparently an original feature.
B-(9) Bowl (91168868) 30 yards NE of (8). Diam 64ft. ht 3 1/2ft. Flat-topped as (8).
C-(10) Bowl (91188870). 50 yards NE of (9). Diam. about 37ft., ht. 4 1/2ft.
D-(11) Bowl (91188874) 30 yards NNE of (10). Diam. about 30ft. ht. about 2ft.
E-(12) Bowl (91918878) 60 yards NE of (11). Diam: about 37ft., ht. 4ft.
F-(13) Bowl (?) (91918879) immediately N of (12). Ploughed almost flat.
G-(14) Bowl (91238880) 20 yards NE of(12). Diam about 37ft ht. 4ft.
H-(15) Bowl (91258883) 45 yards NE of (14). Diam 42ft ht 4 1/2ft.(2)
SY 912887. seven Barrows, south of Northport Heath, Scheduled. (3)

Details of Barrow on Pastscape

A bowl barrow with a mound composed of earth, flint and chalk, with maximum dimensions of 28m in diameter and c0.5m in height. The mound is surrouded by an infilled ditch. The size of the barrow has been reduced by ploughing.

(SY 91029665. White Barrow (a); bowl (?) on fairly level arable about 140 ft above O.D. Only a broad irregular rise about 2 1/2ft high remains, suggesting former larger mound. (2-3) SY 91019664. ‘White Barrow’ (name not confirmed, not in local use), a barrow in arable, approximately 30.0 metres in diameter and 1.0 metres high. There is no visible ditch. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (4)

SY 9895 8030Details of Barrow on Pastscape

Barrow depicted on a map of 1775, at which the court leet met, and after which the Hundred of Row Barrow takes its name.
SY 98958030. The Row Barrow Hundred was named after this barrow at which the court leet was held. Hutchins mentions it, but its location only became known recently from a map of 1775. (1)

Details of Stone on Pastscape

(SY 92168057) Stone (NR) (1) Known as the ‘Harp Stone’, by which name it should be described on OS plans. (2) The Harp Stone (NR) (3)
The Harpstone, a limestone monolith, stands on the bank of a small stream just inside the west edge of Hurpston Coppice.
It is 7 1/4 feet high with a jagged and uneven top and has a maximum width of 3 3/4 feet east-west by 3 feet north-south. The four faces are largely disfigured by vertical grooves and hollows, the result of weathering. Its origin is unknown.
The place-name ‘Herpston’ (1340) may refer to the stone, which stands on the bank between Herpston and Hyde manors and flanks the ancient road from Creech to Kimmeridge. (4) SY 921805. The Harp Stone. Scheduled 735. (5) The Harp Stone, an undated monolith, probably ancient. Scheduled. (6)
The Harp Stone, a weather-worn standing stone, as described. Published 1:2500 survey correct. (7)

Details of barros on Pastscape

(SU 16317299 & SU 16387305) Tumuli (NR). (1) Two bowl barrows listed by Grinsell. SU 16317299, diam 24 paces; height 3 ft. Has slight ditch. Excavated by Smith and Cunnington in 1879. Primary (?) cremation beneath inverted MBA collared urn, with flint knife. Secondary interments included a cremation and apparently a skeleton, with a leaf arrowhead near it. Urn in Devizes Museum (4). SU 16377304, diam 19 paces, height 4 ft, has slight ditch. (2-4)
Saucer barrow not shown by Auth 1, but listed by Grinsell. (5) SU 16357307, mound dia 38 ft height 1 ft, ditch width 8 ft depth 1/2 ft; outer bank width 10 ft, height 1/2 ft.
Excavated by Smith and Cunnington in 1879. Primary cremation in circular cist; fragments of a small ‘drinking-cup’ 6 ft N of centre. (Grinsell queries whether in soil before erection of barrow). Now in Devizes Museum (4). (6-7)
SU 16317299. A bowl barrow 20.0 metres in diameter and 1.0 metre high; the ditch has been ploughed out.
SU 16387304. A bowl barrow 16.0 metres in diameter and 1.0 metre high, now with no trace of a ditch.
SU 16357305. Vestiges of a mound 0.2 metres high are all that survives of the ‘saucer barrow’. Under crop.
Published 25” survey revised. (8)

Details of temple on Pastscape

A possible temple complex of late Iron Age date visible as an earthwork (centred at SU 22736715) was mapped and interpreted from lidar derived imagery as part of the Savernake Forest NMP project. The feature appears as a multi-vallate sub-rectangular enclosure with an internal area of c96m by 75m. There are two ditches, with at least two banks, possibly a third, with a berm as well covering an area of nearly 30m. The only apparently clear entrance is on the eastern side, but this also coincides with a forest track. The interpretation of the site as a temple complex is based on the complexity of its earthworks; the date is based on its relationship with the Roman road described in record LINEAR517 and SU26NW 244. It appears from the lidar derived imagery as though the enclosure is cut by the Roman road on its western side, which places the enclosure earlier than the road. (1)
The site has also been subject to a summary field visit where the relationship was confirmed, but it should be noted that the area has dense undergrowth and the site where the precise relationship between the two features would be most clear has suffered from later disturbance. (2)
Since the course of the road was used in part for the Marlborough to Bedwyn road in medieval and post medieval times there is a slight possibility that the slighting of the enclosure dates to some later re-use and revision, which would mean that the enclosure could be a much later park or garden feature. The documentary evidence, however suggests that the former Marlborough road diverges from that of the Roman road further south, possibly related to the feature described in record SU26NW ??. (3)

Details of Savernake 2 round barrow on Pastscape

SU 21556624 Tumulus (NR). (1)
One of two Bronze Age bowl barrows surviving as earthworks (centred at SU 21556625) was mapped and interpreted from a combination of lidar derived imagery and aerial photographs as part of the Savernake Forest NMP project. Both barrows were previously part of a single record (SU26NW 2) which now refers only to Barrow ‘B’ . Iron Age sherds found at the time of investigating the barrow on the ground have also been separately recorded as record SU26NW 105. On both the aerial photographs and lidar derived imagery barrow ‘A’ was seen as a quite indistinct low mound with no obvious ditch. This survey does not add any significant information to what was recorded by the previous authorities who visited the site on the ground. (2)
Savernake 2 ; bowl barrows, ‘A’ 15 paces in diameter x 2ft high. Reported by J W Brooke (a) in 1889, no interment found; many sherds superficially (some found recently by O Meyrick are Iron Age ‘C’). One sherd, classified ‘LBA or IA’ from ‘Barrow 2’, South Savernake, is in the Ashmolean Passmore Collection: Acc 1955.172. (3-4)
A bowl barrow lying on a woodland valley floor in an area of clay with flints. Barrow ‘A’ measures 15.0m in diameter by 0.7m high with a later mutilation on the east side. No further finds made. Published survey (25”) revised on FSG/PFD. (5)

Details of barrow on Pastscape

(SU 23036640) Tumulus (NR). (1) Savernake 1; ditched bowl barrow, 30 paces in diameter x 4ft high. Covered with firs 1936. (2)
(SU 2303 6640); The bowl barrow, 43m overall diameter, has a mound 1.4m high, and a ditch, which survives only on the N side, 0.3m deep. Published survey 25” revised on FSG/PFD. (3)
The Bronze Age bowl barrow (centred at SU 23036640) described by the previous authorities was mapped and interpreted from a combination of lidar derived imagery and aerial photographs as part of the Savernake Forest NMP project. The lidar imagery revealed some evidence for the ditch surviving all the way around the barrow. Aerial photographs suggest traces of a second possible barrow (centred at SU 23066638) that has been separately recorded as SU26NW103. (4)

Details of New Road Track round barrow on Pastscape

(’A’: SU 21556624 and ‘B’: SU 21556623) Tumuli (NR). (1)
Savernake 3; bowl barrow, ‘B’ 14 paces in diameter x 2 1/2ft high. Reported by J W Brooke (a) in 1889, no interment found; many sherds superficially (some found recently by O Meyrick are Iron Age ‘C’). One sherd, classified ‘LBA or IA’ from ‘Barrow 2’, South Savernake, is in the Ashmolean Passmore Collection: Acc 1955.172. (2-3)
A bowl barrow lying on a woodland valley floor in an area of clay with flints. ‘B’ measures 14.0m in diameter by 1.0m high. No further finds made. Published survey (25”) revised on FSG/PFD. (4)
The Bronze Age bowl barrow surviving as an earthwork (centred at ‘B’ SU 21556623) described by the previous authorities was mapped and interpreted from a combination of lidar derived imagery and aerial photographs as part of the Savernake Forest NMP project. Barrow ‘A’ has now been recorded separately as SU26NW 104. The Iron Age sherds have also been separately recorded as record SU26NW 105. On both the aerial photographs and lidar derived imagery barrow ‘B’ was seen as a quite indistinct low mound with no obvious ditch. This survey does not add any significant information to what was recorded by the previous authorities who visited the site on the ground. (5)

Details of Big Belly Oak round barrow on Pastscape

(SU 21446591) Tumulus (NR). (1) Savernake 4; ditched bowl barrow, 20 paces in diameter by 3 1/2 ft high. (2)
A ditched bowl barrow lying on an eastern slope under mature woodland. It measures 36.0m in overall diameter by 1.2m high with a ditch 0.4m deep. Published survey (25”) revised on FSG/PFD. (3)
The Bronze Age ditched bowl barrow described by the previous authorities was mapped and interpreted from lidar derived imagery as part of the Savernake Forest NMP project. The feature appeared as a mound c25m across surrounded by a ditch c4.5m wide and was partially truncated on the south-west edge by a later ditch, possibly a section of trackway recorded separately as part of record SU26NW 227. (4)

Details of barrow on Pastscape

(SU 20966421) Mound (NAT). (1) Wooton Rivers 1, probable bowl barrow, 28 paces in diameter x 2 1/2 ft high. (2) Circular crop-mark. (3)
A bowl barrow, 32.0 metres in diameter and 0.7 metres high, spread by ploughing. No trace of a ditch. Published survey 1:2500 revised. (4)

Details of barrow on Pastscape

(SU 215638 and SU 218638) Tumuli (NR). (1) Square Copse Group of bowl barrows.

NGR VCH No Diam Ht Remarks
A. SU 21426378 Savernake 6 20 paces 1ft )
B. SU 21516377 Savernake 7 30 paces 2ft ) on arable
C. SU 21646375 Savernake 8 20 paces 1ft ) in 1950
E. SU 21766378 Savernake 9 27 paces 4ft
F. SU 21806380 Savernake 10 20 paces 1 1/2ft
D. SU 21746375 Savernake 11 32 paces 8ft
G. SU 21816374 Savernake 12 30 paces 5 1/2ft
H. SU 21856373 Savernake 13 32 paces 6ft
J. SU 21836380 Savernake 15 paces 1ft Vague and doubtful. A small barrow according to Passmore. (2-3)

“A” A bowl barrow 24.0 metres in diameter and 0.3 metres high.
“B” A bowl barrow spread by ploughing, 32.0 metres in diameter and 0.6 metres high.
“C” Site of a barrow. There are no surveyable remains.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
The remaining five, possibly six, barrows are at present completely inaccessible because they lie within a dense new plantation.
OS 25” survey accepted. (4)

Details of barrow on Pastscape

(SU21684179) Tumulus (NR). (1) Grinsell’s Cholderton 2. A bowl barrow 90 ft in diameter and 6ft high. (2)
A bowl barrow 2.2m high. In good condition. Published 1:2500 survey revised. (3) Originally recorded as Cholderton 2 by Goddard. (4)

Details of Devil’s Ditch on Pastscape

[SU 20934855 – SU 21714725] Devil’s Ditch [O.E.] [Twice] [SU 21714725 – SU 23234355] Devil’s Ditch [O.E.] (Course of) [Three times]. (1)
Additional courses: SU 22404850 to SU 22254819 (SU 24 NW 146) and SU 21774877 to SU 22414893 (SU 24 NW 145) [at which latter point the two earthworks intersect and pass into the county of Wiltshire.] (2)
A bivallate linear earthwork of LBA ranch boundary type (see SU 24 SE 13) extending for some 7700.0m. from Tidworth Barracks southwards to the River Bourne near Cholderton. The county boundary between Wiltshire and Hampshire follows it all the way except for a short stretch near Tidworth. Published 1/2500 revised. (3)
The Devil’s Ditch was investigated as part of the Wessex Linear Ditches project where it formed the eastern boundary of the Northern and Southern Core Territories. Excavations took place at SU 21104831 (LDP 052), SU 21564491 (LDP 090) and SU 21724599 (LPD 094). The ditch at LDP 052 and LPD 090 was found to be V-shaped c. 3.7m – 4.9m wide, and up to 1.75m deep terminating in a steep-sided basal slot. The ditch was originally flat-bottomed but had been remodelled and the original silts cleaned out. A cattle skull recovered from secondary ditch deposits was used to provide a Radio-carbon determination (OxA-3046). This was used to date events which were noted elsewhere in the ditch complex (SU 25 SW 166), a discrete cultural horizon which appears to be connected with the re-use of the ditch system during the Middle Iron Age. These excavations also recovered Roman Pottery from the top of the ditch. Roman and Late Bronze Age pottery was also recovered by field walking along the southern section of the ditch. (4) The Devil’s Ditch was investigated by RCHME field staff as part of Salisbury Plain Training Area Project. Further details can be found within the project archive. The linear earthwork bounds the Tidworth golf course on the SW for its entire length, skirting and partially destroying two round barrows as it does so. Where it crosses Dunch Hill it is 5m wide and 1m deep with a corresponding bank on its N side, except where it descends the slope of Dunch Hill. A second linear ditch, c5m wide and 1m deep, with a corresponding bank on its N side, abuts and may even cut into the `Devils Ditch’. This runs to the NE for a distance of 100m following the line of the earlier fields. On reaching the summit of the hill it turns ENE and is clearly aligned on a group of round barrows some 350m W of the golf course perimeter. Surveyed at 1:2500. (5)

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(Centred at SU 19264675) Tumuli (AT). (1)

A barrow cemetery comprising of four barrows (Milston 10-12, 21a); three bowl barrows and one round barrow of `exceptional type’. The latter barrow was excavated by Colt Hoare who doubted whether it was sepulchral; no interment was located, the only finds were ‘a few animal bones of deer etc’. (2)
Resurveyed at 1:2500. (3) The barrows are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and have been mapped by both RCHME’s Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH’s Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. (4-5)

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Milston 12 (D) round barrow at SU 19294671. Mound 135’ x 6’, bank 21 x 2’, ditch 18’ x 1 1/2’. A large circular mound encircled by a vallum outside of which is the surrounding ditch. Opened by Colt Hoare who doubted whether it was sepulchral; no signs of any interment, and the only finds were `a few animal bones of deer etc.’ (1)
Milston 12. As described by Grinsell it is `a round barrow of exceptional type’ (1). Presumably a barrow, it consists of a central flat-topped mound surrounded by a berm above the outside groud level, a bank and an external ditch. Total diameter about 70m. Resurveyed at 1:2500. (2)
Originally recorded as Milston 12 by Goddard. (3)
This barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs and has been mapped by both RCHME’s Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH’s Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. (4-5)

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A mound surrounded by an oval ditch 35m x 25m representing a possible Bronze Age round barrow mapped from aerial photographs during recent RCHME survey work. There are two very small ring ditches immediately to the south.
SU 11427184: A mound 18m in diameter, possibly a Bronze Age round barrow, was mapped at 1:10,000 from APs by the Fyfield Down and Overton Down Mapping Project. (1-2)
Air photographs taken in 1997 show that the mound is surrounded by an oval ditch 35m x 25m, with a gap in the S end. Two very small ring ditches 10m and 8m in diameter were recorded immediately to the S. (3)

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SU 11637230 Long Barrow(NR). (1) Long barrow aligned E/W?; 90 ft x 45 ft and 3 1/2 ft high. Doubtful as to whether it was ever a long barrow. (2) Excavated by Merewether (barrow 26). Finds included animal bones and fragment of “ampulla of Roman form”.
Grinsell places no reliance on Merewether’s plan (No 26) which shows 4 sarsens each side of the W end as a possible facade. (2-3)
An oval turf-covered mound 30m NE-SW by 14m, and up to 1.2m high; it has no side ditches. Sarsens, visible in the form of ?revetting at the eroded W end of the mound, may represent the facade depicted by Merewether. The mound is definitely of artificial construction, but its origin and purpose is uncertain.
Published 25” survey revised. (4) The oval mound was mapped at 1:10,000 from APs by the Fyfield Down and Overton Down Mapping Project. No additional information was recorded. (5)

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(Centred SU 117723) Tumuli (NR) (1)

‘A’: SU 11647234. A mound, not circular and doubtfully a bowl barrow, 16 paces in diameter and 5ft high (2). Opened by Merewether in 1849 who found animal teeth and bones, fragments of charred wood and a small partially rubbed sarsen stone.
‘B’: SU 11677231. A bowl barrow, diameter 16 paces; height 6’. Merewether’s excavation in 1849 revealed a primary crouched inhumation with type Bi beaker, barbed and tanged arrowhead and two flint flakes overlaid by skulls of two oxen. Secondary deposit of skull of young person apparently contained in type A Beaker.
‘C’: SU 11777235. Probably a disc barrow but possibly a saucer barrow with overall diameter of 126 feet. Mound diameter 28’, height 2 1/2’; berm width 21’; ditch width 13’, depth 1’; outer bank width 15’, height 1’ (2). In 1849 Merewether dug the central mound and under its sarsens below which were other sarsens of considerable size, found boar’s tusks and bones and teeth of ox and deer.
Merewether opened another barrow (’D’: SU 11657226) not listed by Grinsell. He found the bones and teeth of oxen and deer, small pieces of charcoal in considerable quantities and a cylindrical sarsen 3” in diameter. (2-3)

‘A’: SU 11637233. An elongated mound 28.0m N-S by 18.0m E-W which merges into the hillslope and has the appearance of natural slumping. There is no evidence of artificial construction.
‘B’: SU 11657230. An oval bowl barrow approx 21m ENEWSW by 14m and 1.7m high. Small sarsen stones protrude from the mound centre which shows signs of disturbance.
‘C’: SU 11767235. This barrow resembles more a saucer barrow than a disc barrow, but may be accounted for by the slumping of the central mound as a result of Merewether’s excavation. It is oval, 38m NE-SW by 32m overall, with the central mound up to 1.4m high above the ditch, and the outer bank up to 0.3m high.
‘D’: SU 11637227. A small oval mound 12.0m N-S by 9.0m and up to 1.0m high which conforms in position to Merewether’s plan, has apparently been missed by Grinsell. The mound cannot be positively identified as a barrow, due to subsequent use as a field-clearance dump.
Published 25” survey revised. (4)

This area was mapped at 1:10,000 from APs by the Fyfield Down and Overton Down Mapping Project. Two mounds were recorded at SU 11637233 and SU 11657230 (’A’ and ‘B’ above). At SU 11767235 (’C’ above) traces of mound material were recorded within a ring ditch 30m in diameter. No mound was recorded at SU 11637227 (’D’ above). (5)

Merewether’s site plan showed a rather symmetrical layout for the barrow cemetery, comprising long barrow SU 17 SW 45 and the four round barrows, plus an arrangement of sarsens. The mounds either side of the long mound (A and D above) also produced rather similar finds and the central feature, bowl barrow B, producing the ‘richest’ finds. Concordance with Grinsell and Merewether as follows:

Barrow A = Winterbourne Monkton 7 = Merewether’s no. 24;
Barrow B = Winterbourne Monkton 9 = Merewether’s no. 28;
Barrow C = Winterbourne Monkton 10 = Merewether’s no. 27;
Barrow D = not listed by Grinsell = Merewether’s no. 25. (2, 3)

The barrows were re-examined during air photographic mapping for the Avebury World Heritage Site Project. ‘A’ and ‘B’ appeared non-circular; the mound at ‘C’ was irregular and non-circular in appearance within an outer bank. The evidence for ‘D’ was inconclusive; the location lies in an area of soil dumping. (6-7)

During the course of a survey of 2006 lidar data the barrows were noted to be situated on what appear to be natural spurs of material deposited at the base of Monkton Down. This was confirmed through field assessment. Barrow A appears to be truncated by a field boundary hence its non-circular appearence. Barrow C, or the saucer barrow appears to display a smaller mound supplanted on top of the main mound, perhaps suggesting a secondary barrow. (8)

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(Centred SU 12007267) Tumuli (NR) Tumulus (NR). (1)

A.SU 12077264. Bowl barrow with hollow centre. Diam. 12 paces; height 2 1/2’. (Winterbourne Monkton 13)
B.SU 12027266. Bowl barrow diam. 16 paces; height 3 1/2’. MBA sherds found by O. Meyrick. (Winterbourne Monkton 14)
C.SU 11997267. Bowl barrow diam 12 paces; height 2’. (Winterbourne Monkton 15)
D.SU 11977269. Bowl barrow diam. 23 paces; height 6’. Surrounded by tree ring. Carelessly excavated in past but no record or date known. Second limited excavation by Passmore in 1921 produced a secondary cremation in large upturned urn. Beaker and MBA sherds found on mound by O Meyrick. (Winterbourne Monkton 16)
E.SU 11949274. Bowl barrow diam 13 paces; height 2 1/2’. Ditched. (Winterbourne Monkton 17). (2-3)

A.SU 12077264. A bowl barrow 12m diameter and 0.6m high. There is a central depression 0.3m deep, but no evidence of a ditch.
B.SU 12027266; A ditchless bowl barrow 21m diameter and 0.8m high. The mound top is mutilated.
C.SU 11997267; A bowl barrow 22m diameter and 0.7m high. The centre is disturbed and uneven. No trace of a ditch.
D.SU 11967269. A ditched bowl barrow 24m diameter and 1.7m high. A modern bank 0.3m high obscures most of the ditch. The mound is extensively damaged.
E. SU 11937274. This barrow can only be traced by the soilmark of a ring ditch, 12m overall diameter in ploughed land.
Published 25” surveys revised. (4)

All five barrows were mapped at 1:10,000 from APs by the Fyfield Down and Overton Down Mapping Project. No additional information was recorded. (5-6)
A central depression was visible in the centre of one of the barrows on lidar and was mapped as part of the Avebury WHS Lidar and NMP Review. (7)

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(SU 09437221) Shelving Stone (NAT) Long Barrow (NR) (site of) The name Shelving Stone (see SU 17 SW 41) has been incorrectly associated with the site of a long barrow – Winterbourne Monkton 17 a (2), known as Millbarrow or King’s Mill Barrow (3). Andrews & Dury (4) show and describe the barrow, where, at the present day, there is a large stone in the hedge (3). It was illustrated by Stukeley (5) and shown on OS 2” Drawing (6) annotated “Tumulus”. (The error appears to have originated in the linking by Crawford (7) of the site of a cromlech in ‘Monkton fields’ (8) known by Aubrey as ‘Shelving Stone’ with the long barrow shown on the 2” Drawing (6)).
Millbarrow was apparently 215ft long (3) by 55ft wide (8) and set round with a peristalith or orthostatic revetment of megaliths, orientated east to west.
A farmer levelled the barrow sometime prior to 1858 (8) but only discovered a few human and animal teeth and a jaw-bone. Thurnam (a) dug on the site in 1863 with negative results.
The megalith, on which is cut BM 544.4 (7) (SU 09437219-OS 6” 2nd Edt 1900) which survives in the hedge adjoining the barrow may be the remains of the Millbarrow chamber or revetment (3). According to Smith (10) the site retains several other stones as well as a portion of the chalk mound and traces of a side ditch. The remains conform to Stukeley’s drawing of Millbarrow.
There are no surveyable remains of the long barrow nor any trace of the large stone (3) and the ‘several other stones’ (10).
The hedges have been cleared and the area is under crop. Nothing visible on OS AP 73/071 240. Site described by Barker (12). Antler fragments were found in 1961 in throw-out from a burrow. The fragments are in the Keiller Museum, Avebury. The remnants of the mound were removed by the landowner in 1967, apparently unaware of the barrow’s presence.
The barrow was excavated in 1989 by Alasdair Whittle. Two ditches were found flanking each side of the barrow, the inner pair c. 18m apart. Finds from all four ditches were scarce. Part of the eastern end of the tomb was excavated, revealing features including a possible former chamber area, facade and kerb, plus post holes. Fragments of human bone and sherds of Peterborough ware were among the finds. In addition, some pits and post holes appear to pre-date the mound. Two of the pits contained human remains. (12-13, 16)
Radiocarbon dates from human bone and antler recovered in 1989 range from 4900 plus/minus 110bc to 4480 plus/minus 80bc, suggesting that construction occurred in the later 4th millennium BC. (14, 16)
Whittle’s use of antiquarian records to interpret excavated features of Millbarrow has been criticised by Ucko et al. (15)
The mound of the long barrow was seen on a 2006 lidar survey. The monument is respected by a neighbouring field system. (17)

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(Area SU 105702) The Shelving Stones, the probable remains of a burial chamber, of which there is now no-trace. Not to be confused with the Milbarrow Long Barrow (SU 07 SE 19) (1). (1) Aubrey and Stukeley both describe and illustrate it (2). Aubrey writes (a) ‘In Monkton Fields is a long pitched stone seven feet and more; it leaneth eastward upon two stones’; and Stukely (3) describes it as ‘a monument of Four stones, which is probably a kistvaen’ and situated ‘directly north-east from Abury’ – he marks the site on one of his maps as east of the Swindon to Avebury road (b). (2-3)
Additional reference. (4) No trace of a barrow mound was seen when the area was mapped at 1:10,000 from air photographs. (6)

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(“A” SU 11977387; “B” SU 12127391) Tumuli (NR). (1)
Two bowl barrows on Berwick Down, almost destroyed by rabbits.
Berwick Bassett 1 – “A”: Diam 9 paces; height 2‘
Berwick Bassett 1a – “B”: Diam 9 paces; height 1’. (2)

A: SU 11977387 This bowl barrow has been distorted by ploughing, and is now oval, 14m E-W by 10m, and averaging 0.6m high. B: SU 12127391 No trace of this barrow can be located, in an area of quarry upcast. Published 25” surveys revised. (3)
Barrow ‘A’ was identified when the area was mapped at 1:10,000 from air photographs. Barrow ‘B’ could not be identified in an area of quarry upcast. (4-5)

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(Centred SU 11347100) Tumuli (NR). (1)

‘A’ (SU 11257097) Avebury 37 -Bell(?) barrow, mound diam 48’, height 5’; Merewether in 1849 (barrow 3). Primary (?) cremation and remains of small bronze dagger which had been burnt. B & T arrowhead found. (Grinsell qualifies his classification by saying that apparent bell form may be due to removal of material from circumference by ploughing. Merewether says that it was a bowl barrow).
The barrow was dug into by Merewether on August 10th 1849. His account in full runs as follows: “Somewhat smaller in dimensions than the others. Large fragments of bone, teeth, burnt wood; at about 8 feet deep a cist, 18 inches diameter, formed in the natural chalk bed, containing burnt human bones and two small pieces of bronze; a smooth stone tapering towards one end, which had been broken off – it may have been a spear-head, and a rather large flint arrow-head, were discovered in the progress of the excavation, as well as a small one of iron”. Merewether described it as a bowl barrow, and provided illustrations of the artefacts, although the bronze fragments and the tapering stone object are not easily identifiable.
Identification of the bronze fragments as representing a dagger is far from certain. Merewether made no such identification, and his published drawings are little help. Goddard, in his 1911 corpus of Wiltshire bronzes, appears to include these items under the heading “Fragments of Bronze, indeterminate or undescribed...” (corpus no. 302), yet a couple of year later referred to “two small pieces of bronze (knife-daggers?)“, the wording suggesting he was guessing. Grinsell more confidently asserted that Merewether had found the “corroded remains of small bronze dagger whichhad passed through the fire”, though no further authority is given for this statement. Its subsequent history is unknown, and it is not mentioned in Gerloff’s corpus of British Bronze Age daggers. (2-3, 6-8)

‘B’ SU 11297100 Avebury 38 – Bell(?) barrow, mound diam 63’, height 7’; berm width 9’; ditch destroyed. Excavated by Merewether (barrow 4). Primary (?) cremation in MBA collared urn. Rim of another collared urn found 2 1/2’ from top of mound. (Grinsell has same qualifications to classification as in Avebury 37).
Merewether’s account of the excavation, on August 11th 1849, is as follows: “At a depth of about 2ft 6in a considerable fragment of a large coarse urn was found, ornamented with plain hatched lines rount the top. At the depth of 5 feet, a cist, formed as usual in the chalk, was discovered; this was 2ft 6in in diameter, the same in depth; it contained in fragments, but as it had been originally deposited, in the centre, a large plain urn filled with burnt human bones; the urn was 13 inches high.” Merewether was quite explicit in describing the mound as a bell barrow, as were the Ordnance Survey. Grinsell was more cautious. (1-5)

‘C’ SU 11357099 Avebury 39 – Bell barrow, mound diam 84’ height 6 1/2’ berm width 14’; ditch destroyed.; certainly a bell barrow with berm wide and well preserved.
There is no report of Merewether having excavated Avebury 39, which seems a little curious given its size and proximity to other barrows dug into by him. However, in this area, he refers to “a range of five large barrows” but only describes the results of digging four. A fifth is described merely as having “previously been opened”. Here he may well be referring to Avebury 39. Thus the shallow depression in th summit of the mound referred to by the Ordnance Survey may well relate to a pre-1849 antiquarian excavation. Grinsell’s report of the ditch being “destroyed” by ploughing by 1950 is curious given its clear presence 25 years later. (1-5)
Additional detail for one of the barrows (SU 1134 7098), including a central hollow, is visible on lidar and was mapped as part of the Avebury WHS Lidar and NMP Review.

‘D’ SU 11417099, Avebury 40 – Bowl barrow, diam 15 paces; height 5’. Excavated by Merewether (barrow 5). Primary (?) cremation in a large cist on the natural surface of the ground, covered with black substance like pounded charcoal. (2-3)
Merewether dug into the barrow on August 11th 1849. His account of the excavation is as follows: “This barrow, the last of the five eastward, did not produce in course of its excavation the ordinary quantity of fragments of bone, teeth, or pottery, but was unusually compact and close in its materials; at about 7 feet deep, – the level of the adjacent down, – we came to a cist formed in the natural chalk, filled with burnt human bones, the produce of apparently more than one body. This cist was the largest of those I have met with of this kind; but there was no urn, nor any fragment of pottery, to indicate that the bones had been deposited otherwise than they were found, – they were covered with the black substance like pounded charcoal.” Merewether clearly refers to this barrow as a bell barrow, yet both Grinsell and the Ordnance Survey describe it as a bowl barrow. (1-5)

A. SU 11257097; A bowl barrow 15m overall diameter and 1.3m high. Ditch ploughed out. Some mutilation on the SE gives the slight
suggestion of a bell barrow.
B. SU 11297100; A bell barrow 40m overall diameter, has a mound 2.7m high above a wide, 0.2m ditch which is ploughed out in the N.
C. SU 11347099. A bell barrow, overall diameter 54m. Mound 2.6m high; berm 4.5m wide. The ditch, average 8.0m wide is now 0.2m deep. There is a shallow depression in the mound summit.
D. SU 11417098. A ditchless bowl barrow, 15m overall diameter and 1.1m high. Published 25” surveys revised. (4)

All four barrow mounds were mapped at 1:10,000 from APs by the Fyfield Down and Overton Down Mapping Project. No additional information was recorded. (5)

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(SU 11427127) Tumulus (NR). (1) SU 11437127. Bowl barrow, diameter 12 paces, height 1’. Appears to have had a sarsen peristalith, of which 7 stones were still extant in 1950. Merewether says that the barrow was within a circle of stones (8 existing and holes from which 4 others had been removed) of about 9ft diameter. The barrow contained much rude pottery, charcoal, animal bones and teeth of deer, oxen and swine. (2-3)
SU 11427127. This denuded round barrow is 13m in diam and averages 0.5m high. Nine stones remain but only two are set on edge and these are 0.8m high.
Published 25” survey revised. (4) The barrow mound was mapped at 1:10,000 from APs by the Fyfield Down and Overton Down Mapping Project. No additional information was recorded. (5, 7) Listed as Avebury 64a by Grinsell (2), the barrow had earlier been recorded by Goddard as Winterbourne Monkton 17d, although Goddard was actually unsure as to which parish the monument was in. (6)

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TL 39124310. The remains of an Iron Age square barrow located 170 metres north east of Summer House Farm. The barrow mound has been reduced by ploughing and is no longer visible above ground, but the surrounding ditch survives as a cropmark. This feature is roughly 20 metres square and encloses a central burial pit, also visible as a cropmark in aerial photographs. Scheduled. (1)

The Rookery

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The monument includes a Bronze Age bowl barrow located 250 metres to the south of Waterhall Farm, within a small copse immediately to the north of the A14 known as `The Rookery’. The barrow mound is roughly circular in plan and domed in profile, measuring circa 35 metres in diameter and 1 metre high. The barrow forms part of a dispersed group or cemetery which included at least ten similar barrows, seven of which still survive and are scheduled separately.

[TL 67896700] TUMULUS [LB] (1) Shown on Fox’s BA map as a round barrow under the heading “unexamined or destroyed without record of their contents having been preserved.” Date unknown but situation suggests Bronze Age. (2)
This barrow lies deep in nettles and undergrowth but from the limited observation possible it appears to be a bowl barrow at least 40.0m in diameter and 1.5m height.

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(A: TL 67186675; B: TL 67256685; C: TL 67236696; D: TL 67346690; E: TL 67476700) Tumuli (NR) (Sites of) (NAT) (1) Shown on map as Bronze Age barrows. (2)
Group of six tumuli, at present under crop so that full survey is impracticable. The tumuli are clearly mis-sited on OS 6”.
A – Bowl barrow, 30.0m in diameter and 1.0m high.
B – Slight swelling crossed by west boundary fence of waterworks. Site of probably bowl barrow.
C – Slight swelling crossed by farm track. Site of probable bowl barrow.
D – Bowl barrow 35.0m in diameter and 1.0m high.
E – Bowl barrow 45.0m in diameter and 1.0m high.
F – Bowl barrow 40.0m in diameter and 0.7m high.

Sited approximately on 1:2500 antiquity model.

(A: TL 67156666; B: TL 67276677; C: TL 67216697; D: TL 67306695; E: TL 67426693; F: TL 67556702) Tumuli (NR) (Twice) (4)
Two of the barrows were excavated in April 1973 in advance of their destruction by roadworks for the Newmarket bypass. (5)
Barrow B, TL 67276676, partly underlay the fence of the water pumping station and could not be completely investigated. Trenches across the accessible part failed to reveal anything and the mound appears to be of natural origin.
Barrow A, TL 67176665, was also of natural origin but had five inhumation graves and a cremation cut into its summit. The minimum number of individuals interred was possibly five females, three males, and three immature individuals. The largest grave, grave 11, contained beaker sherds, numerous flint flakes, an ox bone, a small, circular coal bead, and a small bronze or copper cylinder. None of the other graves contained grave goods. (5)
Barrows A to F are as follows:-
Sites ‘A’ ‘B’ and ‘F’ destroyed or mutilated by new A11 by-pass.
‘C’: No change.
‘D’: A slight lift upon a natural rise in undulating chalk at present under plough. It measures overall circa 34.0m in diameter by 0.4m high.
‘E’: Slight lift in undulating chalk plough which measures circa 45.0m in diameter by 0.4m high.
‘F’: A slight rise in undulating chalk partially cut by the boundary of the new A11 by-pass. Averages 40.0m in diameter by 0.4m high, but only the western half survives.
Published 1:2500 survey revised on M.S.D. (6)

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TL 53675280 & TL 53735287. Tumuli (NR). (1) Three Bronze Age barrows situated in Chaterhouse Plantation east of the Newmarket to London road, excavated by Neville in 1848. The first 5-6 ft high and 50 ft in diameter contained two cremations each with a cinerary urn in basin-shaped cists about 3 ft in circumference and 20 ins deep scopped out of the solid chalk. Other finds included a bronze pin, a fragment of coarse cloth in which the burnt bones had been wrapped and burnt oxen bones throughout the mound. The second barrow of similar size to the first contained one cremation with an urn but no cist. Finds included 8 black flint “arrowheads” (So called, evidently flakes) “unused”, near it. A heap of 6 similar “arrowheads” were found near the edge of the mound and 3 more elsewhere in the mound. A portion of a small bronze ornament must be regarded as a secondary deposit. The third barrow contained a primary inhumation and bones of ox and sheep, and a secondary interment of Roman (?) date was noted. (2)

A group of four barrows (A-D), lying on level ground and partly covered by a tree belt. (A-C excavated by Neville).

‘A’ TL 53665280. A bowl barrow 22.0m in diameter and 1.5m high, slightly truncated by ploughing on the south east side. No trace of a ditch visible.

‘B’ TL53705284. A bowl barrow 16.0m in diameter and 1.0m high, no ditch is evident.

‘C’ TL 53725286. A bowl barrow 18.0m in diameter and 0.8m high slightly reduced on the south east side by ploughing. No trace of a ditch.

‘D’ TL 53735282. A probable barrow lying on level plough and visible as a light soil mark on OS AP (a). It measures circa 30.0m in diameter and 0.4m high, but has been much reduced by ploughing. No trace of a ditch.

Published 25” survey revised on AM. (3) TL 537 528. Balsham. 2 cists, Bronze Age structures, excavated within barrows and ring-ditches. (4)

Four bowl barrows situated south-east of Heath Farm, and forming part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery in Charterhouse Plantation. The southernmost mound [’A’] lies 920 metres south-east of Heath Farm and measures 25 metres in diameter and 1.5 metres high. Around 40 metres north-east lies another mound [’C’], approximately 17.5 metres in diameter and up to 0.5 metre high. The northernmost barrow [’B’] measures 21 metres in diameter and 1 metre high. To the east, lies a mound [’D’] which has been partly levelled by ploughing, but survives as a slight earthwork, with a diameter of 30 metres and a height of 0.4 metres. The surrounding ditches are believed to survive as buried features, 3 metres wide. In 1848, three of the barrows [’A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’] were partly excavated. One contained 2 cists cut into the natural chalk, each containing a cremated burial. Evidence suggests that fires had been lit within the cists. Charcoal from the funerary pile and burnt ox bones were found throughout the mound. The other two barrows contained interments but no cists, and one had been re-used as a burial place during the Roman period. Scheduled. (5)

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LONG MOUND (TL 59036202) lies 380 yds. N.W. of Beacon Farm on a low chalk rise at 110 ft. above O.D. It has been heavily ploughed and almost completely destroyed. The low mound is 150 ft. long and 40 ft. wide but is only 9 ins.-1 ft. high. It is orientated almost E.N.E-W.S.W. and is surrounded by a shallow ditch now 25 ft. wide and up to 9 ins. deep.(1) Ploughed out; no remains.(2) Additional reference.(3)
TL 58926211. Buried remains of a long barrow south east of Partridge Hall Farm. The barrow mound has been reduced by ploughing and is no longer visible above ground, but the surrounding ditch and the central burial area appear on aerial photographs as cropmarks. The barrow is aligned east-west and measures roughly 66 metres long and 30 metres wide. Scheduled. (4)

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Archaeological Investigation between June 2011 and October 2012 within the palaeochannel at Must Farm Quarry revealed later prehistoric wooden structures including fish traps, weirs and post alignments, but also eight well preserved later Bronze Age / Early Iron Age logboats. The significance of these logboats lies not only in their collection as a group of artefacts, but in the quality of the contextual detail in which they were recovered. In addition, a number of aretfacts of both organic and non-organic material were uncovered deomstrating the extent of exploitation wihtin and more importantly throughout the channel’s existence. This is reflected in the collection of metalwork which also spans approximately 1200 years and includes bronze swords, daggers, rings, rapiers, a razor, a pin, a brooch and iron swords still riveted to their wooden handles. (1-2)

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TL 62087335 Two ploughed down barrows near Fordham (not visible on AP’s). (1-2)
(TL 6211 7334) A bowl barrow under light pasture, measuring overall c23.0m in diameter and c0.8m high on the N side falling away to c0.4m high on the S side. A slight vegetation growth around the N arc possibly suggests a surrounding ditch; there is no central depression, to the mound, which appears undisturbed. The farmer here reports no serious disturbance to this field within his memory, (c40 years) and reports no finds being made or other mounds having existed. The barrow is situated on a relatively high neck of land between two old watercourses to the E and W, with the land dropping away to the N, giving the mound a localised prominence. There is no ground trace of another tumulus in this area.Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. (3)
Scheduled; number 258. (4) Scheduled listing (5) SMR 7568 describes a large Neolithic flint scatter and additionally two ploughed down barrows. The barrows are identical to those listed in SMR 7515, one of these has been scheduled (SM27168) while the other has been levelled to such an extent it can no longer be identified on the ground. (7)