Monument record MDO4070 - Folly Barrow, Iwerne Minster

Bronze Age bowl barrow surviving as an earthwork mound and ditch. In 1972 the monument was recorded as thickly overgrown, approximately 50 feet in diameter with a mound standing some 5.5 feet high, and with a ditch 9 feet across and 1 foot deep. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

A bowl barrow. Diameter 50 feet, height 5 feet. Ditch 9 feet across and 1 foot deep. <3> The barrow is grass and tree covered. It has a diameter of 16.0m and a height of 1.8m. It is surrounded by a ditch 2.0m wide with an average depth of 0.3m. It is a well shaped bowl barrow without trace of an outer bank. Grinsell, who visited this barrow when it was obscured by vegetation, mistakenly supposed it might be the disc barrow opened by Shipp (ST 81 SE 9). <4> So called Folly Barrow on Isaac Taylor Ms.Map <1>, perhaps a disc barrow of the Dorset type, excavated, urn of an agreeable form, surrounded by 6 cremations in cists. <5> No change since 7 3 56. Name confirmed. Resurveyed at 1:2500. <6> ST 88551562. A Bronze Age bowl barrow, known as Folly Barrow, located on Bareden Down. The barrow mound measures 16 metres in diameter 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. Barrow scheduled. <7>.

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Aug 24 2022 4:57PM