Bowl barrow 450m north east of Manor Farm, part of the Pound Hill round barrow cemetery
List Entry Summary
This monument is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 as amended as it appears to the Secretary of State to be of national importance. This entry is a copy, the original is held by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Name: Bowl barrow 450m north east of Manor Farm, part of the Pound Hill round barrow cemetery
List entry Number: 1011691
Location
The monument may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Dorset
District: West Dorset
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Winterbourne Abbas
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: Not applicable to this List entry.
Date first scheduled: 31-Oct-1957
Date of most recent amendment: 09-May-1995
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: RSM
UID: 22930
Asset Groupings
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List entry Description
Summary of Monument
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Reasons for Designation
Round barrow cemeteries date to the Bronze Age (c.2000-700 BC). They comprise
closely-spaced groups of up to 30 round barrows - rubble or earthen mounds
covering single or multiple burials. Most cemeteries developed over a
considerable period of time, often many centuries, and in some cases acted as
a focus for burials as late as the early medieval period. They exhibit
considerable diversity of burial rite, plan and form, frequently including
several different types of round barrow, occasionally associated with earlier
long barrows. Where large scale investigation has been undertaken around them,
contemporary or later "flat" burials between the barrow mounds have often been
revealed. Round barrow cemeteries occur across most of lowland Britain, with a
marked concentration in Wessex. In some cases, they are clustered around other
important contemporary monuments such as henges. Often occupying prominent
locations, they are a major historic element in the modern landscape, whilst
their diversity and their longevity as a monument type provide important
information on the variety of beliefs and social organisation amongst early
prehistoric communities. They are particularly representative of their period
and a substantial proportion of surviving or partly-surviving examples are
considered worthy of protection.
The bowl barrow 450m north east of Manor Farm survives well and will contain
archaeological and environmental evidence relating to the monument and the
landscape in which it was constructed.
History
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Details
The monument includes a bowl barrow, one of five forming a round barrow
cemetery on Pound Hill, a chalk ridge with views over the South Winterbourne
valley to the south, in an area of the South Dorset Downs.
The barrow has a mound composed of earth, chalk and flint, with a maximum
diameter of 25m and a maximum height of c.3m. There is a hollow in the top of
the mound, 2m wide and c.0.5m deep, which is likely to represent an excavation
pit. The mound is surrounded by a ditch from which material was quarried
during the construction of the monument. This is no longer visible at ground
level as it has become infilled over the years, but it will survive as a
buried feature c.2m wide.
MAP EXTRACT
The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.
It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features,
considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.
Selected Sources
Other
Mention of excavation hollow,
National Grid Reference: SY 62323 90882
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