Monument record MDO43279 - Rew #5a

NRHE_description: A bowl barrow, excavated by Sydenham in circa 1839-40. At the time, it was circa 18 feet high and 40 feet in diameter. The mound was covered by a layer of flints 2.5 feet thick. Below this were layers of "brown and black mould", interspersed with some thin deposits of ashes. At the centre was a cairn of flints, the lower portion of which comprised broken and chipped flints while the upper portion comprised large unbroken flints. Beneath the cairn was a chalk-cut pit containing on its floor two crouched inhumations and a deposit of cremated bone. The cairn had been piled up directly on top of these. Between the upper and lower parts of the cairn was an extended child inhumation with a small pottery vessel. Near the top of the cairn was a cremation in a collared urn. On the southern side of the mound, a foot beneath the surface (and presumably in the outer flint layer) was a biconical urn containing some cremated bone plus faience, bone and shell beads. Two more secondary cremations were found, one in a pottery vessel, the other covered by a sherd of a large vessel. Near the top of the mound was an unaccompanied extended child inhumation (Saxon?). Grinsell lists this barrow as Winterborne St Martin 5a, but suggests it is probably to be identified with one of Winterborne St Martin 1-5. RCHME suggest that it is probably one of their barrows Winterborne St Martin 107-113. Both indicate that it was probably one of the so-called Rew Group (SY 69 SW 49). Problems of identification stem from the lack of locational detail offered by Warne and Sydenham. [NB two other barrows formerly described here have now been recorded separately as SY 69 SW 90 and 91] <1>

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