Monument record MDO7212 - Bowl barrow, one of the Bloxworth Down Group, Bloxworth

The site of a bowl barrow, though to have been entirely destroyed. The site of this round barrow is visible as a low earthworks on lidar imagery and cropmarks on aerial photographs. It was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

All bowl barrows; 'A' is 36 paces in diameter and 3 1/2 feet high; 'B' is 25 paces by 1 foot; 'C' is 21 paces by 2 feet. Either 'A' or 'B' was opened in 1854 and contained a probable primary cremation with a bone pin; at least two secondary cremations beneath inverted MBA collared urns and a cremation just below the top in an inverted urn. Near this were six intrusive skeletons - Warnes No 13. 'C' was probably opened circa 1854, and contained a primary ? cremation and bucket urn with horseshoe handles beneath a cairn. Three MBA urns and one ?MBA/LBA hybrid urn from barrows on Bloxworth Down are in the British Museum and are doubtless these, most or all from the Durden Collection. The bone pin is also there. Warnes No 15. <2> Three bowl barrows with no evidence of ditches. On a southern slope under stubble and grass. All are somewhat spread and mutilated and 'B' is now ploughed out. (3) 'B' - (41) SY 87769647. Barrow (?) now entirely destroyed. <5> The barrows are presently under crop and inaccessible. None are visible on (b). 'B'. Not seen in crop but visible on (a) and ©. The published diameter of 'A' corresponds with the measured diameter, therefore the present depictions of 'A', 'B' and 'C' are accepted. <6> The site of this round barrow is visible as a low earthworks on lidar imagery and cropmarks on aerial photographs. It is 23m across and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM. <8-10>

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