Monument record MDO2179 - Bowl barrow, Poyntington

A Bronze Age bowl barrow. The monument was visited in 1962 by Leslie Grinsell, who recorded it as being around 14 paces in diameter with a mound about 3 feet high.

The NE extremity of Poyntington Down is cut by a steep sided valley extending through plan ST 6421 in a NW-SE direction. On the SW side between ST 642215 and ST 643213 four mounds extend directly down the valley side from the crest of the arable plateau. They average 30.0m long, 12.0m wide and 0.5m high, side ditches being represented by darker grass. There are uncertain traces of two further mounds 100.0m to the SE. Along the lip of the opposite, NW side of the valley between ST 644216 and ST 646213 are six ditchless circular mounds from 8.0m to 16.0m in diameter. They average 0.3m high on the upper side (adjacent to the rig and furrow which can be seen on APs of the plateau) to 2.0m high on the lower side, usually partly down the valley slope. All are of earth and small stone construction. With this group is one mound 25.0m long, 8.0m wide and 0.4m high which extends well down the slope. Additionally near the valley bottom are two more circular mounds each about 1.7m high on the lower side. It seems certain that the long mounds are pillow mounds and probable that the circular ones fall into the same category. Surveyed at 1:2500. (1) Six of these are listed as being bowl barrows: ST 6434 2167 Pasture, slight hollow in centre. ST 6441 2166 Pasture, stony. ST 6444 2161 Pasture, hollow in centre. ST 6445 2159 Pasture, hollow in centre. ST 6455 2146 Pasture, hollow in centre. ST 6463 2131 Bulldozed ca 1976 when 4 sherds of coarse brown urn were found on an exposed area by Rodney Legg. All were visited by Grinsell on 21/Oct/1962. (2)

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Mar 24 2022 10:23AM