Monument record MDO7318 - Icen Barrow, Creech Heath, Church Knowle

A Bronze Age round barrow known as Icen Barrow on Creech Heath, formerly known as Killwood Heath. The barrow mound is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1970 by the RAF. In 1970 this monument was reported as 56 feet in diameter with a mound about 5 feet high.

Icen Barrow lies on Creech Heath, Church Knowle. The barrow mound (17m across) is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs (3). It was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project. Icen barrow, very large truncated bowl barrow. <5> A small fragment of a Middle Bronze Age urn, seen in 1940 in the offices of Pike's clay works at Furzebrook (SY 932840) probably came from the Icen barrow. <4> Icen barrow, a damaged bowl barrow, probably ditched, on an almost level site on Creech Heath, is 56 feet in diameter by 5 feet high. A Bronze Age urn was found in it. <7> SY 92208383. Church Knowle 1. Icen Barrow listed, details as above. <6> <8> This extensively mutilated bowl barrow lies on the edge of a conifer plantation and is now generally inaccessible because of dense vegetation cover. A well-worn path follows much of the circumference of the mound through the undergrowth so the suggestion <7> that the barrow was ditched could not be verified under present conditions. Published 1:2500 survey accepted. A prominent gorse-covered rise approximately 15.0m to the east of the barrow and separated by a wide cutting may prove to be a second barrow but again the mound was inaccessible because of vegetation cover. <10>

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