Monument record MDO7643 - Late prehistoric round barrow on Rings Hill, East Lulworth

Round barrow situated on a tongue of chalk land projecting West from Rings Hill. Badly damaged. A circular mound is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of Halcombe Vale. It is considered likely to be the remains of a late prehistoric round barrow. It is one of two potential round barrows located here (MDO7643-44).

`A' - Bowl barrow, 109 paces diameter and 3ft high. Either of these two barrows, or another two between Lulworth and Flower's Barrow, were opened by J Milner, but very badly recorded in Gents. Mag. <2> 'A' - (29) - SY 85668048. Bowl barrow, about 21ft diameter and 2ft high, on a tongue of land projecting west below Rings Hill. Much damaged. It is probable that there are those 2 barrows excavated in 1790 by J Milner "opposite to East Lulworth, on a level piece of ground that is met with on the ascent of a steep lofty mountain.... Flower's Barrow", the bottom of which was paved with cobbles "which had apparently been fetched from the adjacent shore". The barrows "were situated near what had formerly been an inhabited spot as the name Ariah Mill indicates". Finds from the 2 barrows included fragments of urns, human and horse bone, horse or ox teeth, boars' tusks, pointed stones and corroded metal, "seemingly iron". <4> SY 857805. Two round barrows on Rings Hill. <5> SY 85658047. Bowl barrow, now so mutilated as to be practically unrecognisable as a barrow. Diameter approximately 8.0m, height 0.5m. Both barrows are in rough grass. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6> A circular mound, approximately 12.7m in diameter, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of Halcombe Vale <7>. It is considered likely to be the remains of a late prehistoric round barrow. It is one of two potential round barrows located here (MDO7643-44). This feature was digitally plotted during the South West Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset).

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