Monument record MDO5684 - Bowl Barrow in the Simon's Ground Group, Ferndown

A Bowl 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. `B' SZ 06419986: bowl barrow 13.0m. In diameter by 0.9m. High. Group surveyed 1:2500. (3) Excavations were concluded in 1969; only barrow `A' was not excavated. B: SZ 06429987. Bowl barrow, which comprised a low mound within a penannuar ditch with a causeway on the south-east and measuring 35 feet across overall. At centre was a cremation burial in a urn; outside the ditch on the south was an urnfield. A linear urnfield extended from near the causeway north-east to barrow `A'. About ninety urns were found. (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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