Bowl barrow 230m south east of the Club House on Petersfield Heath Common, part of the Petersfield Heath Group
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 230m south east of the Club House on Petersfield Heath Common, part of the Petersfield Heath Group
List entry Number: 1016451
Location
The monument may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Hampshire
District: East Hampshire
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Petersfield
National Park: SOUTH DOWNS
Grade: Not applicable to this List entry.
Date first scheduled: 18-Jul-1932
Date of most recent amendment: 04-Feb-1999
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: RSM
UID: 32531
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.
Bowl barrows are the most numerous form of round barrow and date from the Late
Neolithic period to the Late Bronze Age, with most examples belonging to the
period 2400-1500BC.
The bowl barrow on Petersfield Heath Common 230m south east of the Club House
survives well despite some later disturbance caused by the modern use of the
area as a public recreation ground. This and the other barrows in the group
can be expected to retain important archaeological remains and environmental
evidence relating to the cemetery and the environment in which it was
constructed.
History
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Details
The monument includes a bowl barrow of Late Neolithic to Bronze Age date
situated on low lying ground at the northern end of Petersfield Heath Common.
It forms part of a round barrow cemetery east of Heath Pond, known as the
Petersfield Heath Group. Now comprising a total of 21 barrows, a first edition
Ordnance Survey map dated to 1810 indicates that this round barrow cemetery
was formerly more extensive, including further barrows situated to the north
and east, now destroyed by modern housing.
The barrow includes a flat-topped mound, roughly elliptical in shape, which
has been slightly clipped to the north by the construction of a modern cricket
ground. The mound stands approximately 2m high and measures 36m (east-west) by
32m (north-south) in diameter. A narrow berm on the south side is probably the
result of later tree-fall damage. There is no visible trace of an outer ditch,
although this will survive as a buried feature approximately 2m wide.
The modern bench and associated concrete posts situated on the monument are
excluded from the scheduling, although the ground beneath is included.
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
Books and journals
Grinsell, L V, 'Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club' in Hampshire Barrows, , Vol. 14, (1939)
National Grid Reference: SU 75722 23039
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