Monument record MDO987 - Bowl Barrow on Lord's Down, Dewlish

Much disturbed bowl barrow, diameter about 85 feet, height 2 feet.

Six round barrows on Lords Down: C: SY 78439632. Bowl barrow about 85 feet diameter by 2 feet high. It is much disturbed, presumably by excavation, on the north-west side, and has been heavily ploughed. (Barrows 'C' 'D' and 'E' were probably excavated by Warne). <3> These barrows have been reduced by ploughing since 1970 and now measure: 'C' SY 78429632, diameter 18.0m., height 0.4m. C-E in arable. None has a visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4> Opened by Charles Warne, primary grave, containing beaker probably of type A, no inhumation is mentioned from this grave, above this, a layer of mould, above this a layer of chalk rubble which contained the first secondary interment, the skeleton of a child, beneath which were fragments of a plain pot of fine reddish material (food-vessel or beaker?) in a cist formed in the top of this layer of chalk rubble was an upright plain urn, containing the second secondary interment, a cremation probably a child, this mound of chalk rubble was covered with a layer of mould, over this another layer of chalk rubble, in which was a third secondary interment, a cremation with ashes beneath an inverted (Early/Middle Bronze Age?) urn shaped like an enlarged food vessel, on the south side of this layer of chalk, and in a cist cut into it, were the fourth and fifth secondary interments, cremations beneath inverted urns (Middle Bronze Age/Late Bronze Age hybrid?) above this was the final layer of mould, in which was a probably intrusive (Romano-British or pagan Saxon?) skeleton, this barrow had clearly been begun for the reception of an interment with a type A beaker, then enlarged probably both vertically and horizontally for successive interments in the Early/Middle Bronze Age and Late Bronze Age, and last of all used for insertion of a Roman or post-Roman interment, probably more interments are in the mound that may have been missed. None of these barrows can be positively identified, but they are no doubt some of those in Group SY 79 NE 21. <5>

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