Monument record MDO5683 - Bowl Barrow in the Simon's Ground Group, Ferndown

A Barrow with adjacent urnfield.

SU 061001. A number of Late Bronze Age burial urns were found in 1953 at Simon's Ground, Stapehill; it was reported that many more urns and other objects had been found in the past, but not kept. None of the urns recovered intact, apart from one whichcrumbled as it dried out. Some of the pots contained burnt bone. (1) SU 06250005. A large Deverell-Rimbury urnfield with over eighty burials, and an immediately adjacent round barrow about 40ft. In diameter, were excavated in 1967. Trial trenching in areas adjacent to barrows revealed the existence of three more barrows, one with at least five secondary cremations in urns. At Simon's Ground, Hampreston. (2) A group of five barrows excavated, or in the process of being excavated, by Dr. White for the M.P.B.W. `E' SZ 06289999: Site of barrow excavated 1968 (report not yet published). Group surveyed 1:2500. (3) Excavations were concluded in 1969; only barrow `A' was not excavated. E: SU 06290000. Bowl barrow, which consisted of a low mound surrounded by a ditch, 38 feet across overall and causewayed on the south-east. Three urns pre-dating the construction of the barrow were found under the west edge of the mound. An urnfield of nearly fifty urns was found outside the ditch on the south F: SU 06170005 and G: SZ 06379992. Barrows destroyed before excavation. (4,6) C14 determinations have been made for two of the barrows: Barrow E (centre) -917 bc I 55 (BM-694) Barrow E (pits in West part) 741 bc I 58 (BM-696) Barrow C (Chancel in primary Urn) -604 BC I 47 (BM-692). (7) Full report on the excavations. (8)

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