Monument record MDO7105 - Hundred Barrow, south of Rye Hill Farm, Bere Regis

Bronze Age barrow reused as the meeting place of the Domesday Hundreds of Bere. The barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery to the south of Rye Hill Farm, Bere Regis.

Large bowl barrow, no details. <2> This barrow has a diameter of 18.0 metres and a height of 2.6 metres. It has no surrounding ditch and is covered with thorn bushes, brambles and ferns. No visible trace of mutilation. A bowl barrow. <3> SY 8446 9378. Hundred Barrow, bowl barrow, 58ft diameter and 7ft high damaged by rabbits on summit of small spur. <4> Hundred Barrow was the meeting place of the old Domesday hundred of Bere. In the 12th century, a smaller hundred named after the barrow, i.e. Barrow (or Hundreds Barrow) was created out of the original Bere hundred. <5> SY 8446 9377. Hundred Barrow. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6> Bronze Age barrow reused as the meeting place of the Domesday Hundreds of Bere. It is situated on a spur overlooking the Bere Valley to the east. The monument consists of a mound 16 m in diameter and 2.2 m high. It is surround by an infilled ditch 1.5 m wide. The Bronze Age barrow described above is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery to the south of Rye Hill Farm, Bere Regis. The barrow is formed of a sub-oval mound measuring 18 m by 15 m. <8> This feature was digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

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Mar 23 2023 3:24PM