Monument record MDO7308 - Bronze Age Barrow on Creech Barrow, Church Knowle

A Bronze Age barrow is visible as a mutilated earthwork mound on aerial photographs on Creech Barrow. A badly disturbed earthwork mound up to 22 metres across and 3 metres high. The surrounding ditch is now barely traceable on the surface. The name Creech Barrow does not seem to refer to this barrow

A bowl barrow, large and ditched, hollow in centre. On Creech Barrow, but the name almost certainly refers to the hill and not to the barrow on the hill. <2> This barrow has been badly mutilated by excavation in the North East quadrant and a hollow measuring 8.0m long, 5.0m wide and 1.3m deep remains. It has also been mutilated by a modern boundary bank and ditch C-D. The barrow is 22.0m A-B and 19.0m C-D and has a maximum height of 3.0m. It has a ditch in the South-East quadrant 2.5m wide and 0.3m deep. Bowl Barrow. <3> SY 92108233. Church Knowle 13. Bowl barrow listed. <4> The area, including the barrow is densely overgrown with bracken. 'Creech Barrow' does not refer to this barrow. SW 92108233. Ditched bowl barrow on end of spur projecting south from Creech Barrow hill, crossed west of centre by the parish boundary bank with Steeple. Diameter 75 feet, height about 6ft. Possibly the barrow excavated by Austen on Creech Hill. <5> SY 921823. Creech Barrow. Scheduled. <6> This vegetation - covered and gutted round barrow is situated on a shelf of a steep south-west facing hill-slope. The dimensions are generally as noted in 1952 (3) but only the west side bears any resemblance to a barrow because the remainder is so badly disturbed. The ditch is barely traceable. Resurveyed at 1:2500. <8> A Bronze Age barrow is visible as a mutilated earthwork mound on aerial photographs on Creech Barrow (1-2). It is still visible on the latest Google Earth imagery and was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck mapping project.

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Aug 17 2023 11:48AM