Monument record MDO7998 - Bowl Barrow, Ballard Down, Swanage

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, one of a group of three barrows. This barrow was excavated by the Revd Austin in 1857. He found a central contracted inhumation burial with part of an antler. A secondary urned cremation burial was found in the southern side, and a later extended inhumation was found in the eastern part of the barrow mound.

A 37 ft wide bowl barrow in which a primary contracted inhumation with an antler fragment was found in a grave cut 5 ft deep into the chalk; other antler fragments occurred within the grave fill. An extended e/w inhumation lay 2 ft beneath the top of the mound. (1-3) The extended inhumation is thought to be early medieval in date. (1) A secondary urned cremation in a collared urn was exposed on the south side of the barrow by ploughing in 1967. (4)

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