Monument record MDO6741 - Wallisdown Round Barrow, Poole

Bronze Age bell barrow completely excavated in 1949, which revealed two small pits and stake holes covered by a small turf core and gravel mound.

'(363) Bell (SZ 09 SE; 05689432), built over after complete excavation by H.J. Case in 1949. Overall diam. 43 ft. A central oval sod mound 14 ft. by 12 ft. and 1½ ft. high was edged by revetment of sandy material 22 ft. by 17 ft. and covered with gravel, giving the whole mound diam. Of 26 ft. and ht. of about 2½ ft. Berm 3 ft. wide within ditch 5 ft. wide and about 2 ft. deep, interrupted on S.E. by causeway at least 3½ ft. wide. Previous disturbance had destroyed any evidence of burial. Two small pits containing charcoal were excavated, one 3½ ft. long immediately E. of centre and the other 7½ ft. W. of centre. Beneath mound and on berm were thirty-nine stake-holes, all except four between 1 in. and 4 ins. Deep in the Plateau Gravel subsoil. Twelve formed approximate circle 19 ft. in diam., outside, though not concentric with, edge of revetment around central sod mound. The only small finds were 274 struck flints, mostly from top of mound, and many fire-pitted pebbles. Probably Early of Middle Bronze Age, and possibly later than (364). (P.P.S. XVIII (1952), 148-59; and XIX (1953), 131-3.). (1)

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