Monument record MDO7629 - Bronze Age round barrow, Holme Heath, East Holme

A Bronze Age round barrow is visible as an earthwork on Lidar imagery of Holme Heath. It is one of a group of three round barrows located here (MDO7627-29). A possible fourth round barrow is located 80m to the south-west (MWX683) and may also be contemporary with them. Opened in the 1860s by antiquarian J H Austen, who found nothing.

Short report on J Austen's excavation. <2> Three barrows dug by J H Austen. The westernmost contained two urns. Nearby are some 120 small mounds. Three bracken covered bowl barrows, lettered A, B, & C. <4> 'A' Diameter 12.5 metres; height 1.4 metres. No sign of berm or ditch. Slight mutilation on top. 'B'. Diameter 12.0 metres; height 1.6 metres. No trace of berm or ditch. Mutilated on top. 'C' Diameter 10.0 metres; height 1.2 metres. Very slightly mutilated on top. No sign of berm or ditch. Small mounds mentioned in Authy 2 are natural gravel outcrops. <5> Three barrows, all excavated by Austen in 1860. To the north-west and south is a large group of small mounds (see SY 98 NW 42), … Details of the barrows are as follows:- (a) SY 90698528. Bowl barrow 326 feet diameter by 4½ feet high. Nothing found by Austen. <7> SY 907853. Three round barrows on Holme Lane Plantation. <8> The Evaluation of two Round Barrow at Squirrel's Cottages, East Holme, occurred in 1991. The barrows were built of turves capped with a thin skin of sand dug from shallow surrounding ditches. The only finds were a 'handful of undiagnostic worked flints and some burnt flint.' <10-12> A Bronze Age round barrow, approximately 20.7m in diameter, is visible as an earthwork on Lidar imagery of Holme Heath <13>. It is one of a group of three round barrows located here (MDO7627-29). A possible forth round barrow is located 80m to the south-west (MWX683) and may also be contemporary with them. This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

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