Monument record MDO8073 - Povington Barrow, Tyneham

A Bronze Age barrow mound is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1945-6. In 1937 a cremation burial in an urn was discovered at the edge of the mound. Salvage excavation by W H C Frend suggested that the cremation may have been one of a number of burials set in a circle at the edge of the mound.

SY 88058214. Povington Barrow, a bowl barrow, 56ft diameter and 7ft high. A cremation in a biconical Bronze Age urn, now in Dorset Co. Museum, was found under a small flint cairn. <1> The discovery of a Late Bronze Age bucket-shaped urn with cremation at Povington Barrow in 1937 was the result of a salvage operation. The urn was standing on its base at the extreme edge of the barrow, apparently on the turf line on which this had originally been built. This suggests that it may have been one of a number of burials set in a circle at the edge of the mound, later than a secondary interment. The urn itself had been covered by a small cairn of local flints. The cremated bones were in a very fragmentary state but no other pottery or finds were discovered. <2> SY 881820. Povington Barrow. Round barrow. Scheduled. <5> SY 88048213. Povington Barrow (name not confirmed) - a bowl barrow of diameter 19.0m. and height 2.3m. situated on heathland on the west side of a natural knoll. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6> The Bronze Age barrow mound (18m across) is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1945-6 <7-8>. It was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project. It is not identifiable on recent Google Earth imagery although traces of the earthwork may remain on the ground.

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