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| HER Number | MWB1552 |
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| Record Type | Monument |
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| Name | Wash Common Barrow B |
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Summary
Part of a Scheduled Monument. A large bowl barrow, possibly originally bell-shaped, and used as a marker for historic adminstrative boundaries
Associated Legal Designations or Protected Status
- Scheduled Monument 1012811: ROUND BARROW CEMETERY ON WASH COMMON
Other Statuses and Cross-References
- Berkshire SMR No. (pre 2000): 01046.02.000
- Primary Reference Number: 1299
Monument Type(s):
Full Description
PART OF SM 12075. LARGE BARROW, PERHAPS ORIGINALLY BELL-SHAPED WITH NARROW BERM. SURROUNDING DITCH COULD NOT BE TRACED IN 1982. SITUATED ON LINE OF OLD PARISH BOUNDARY. CROSSED BY 4 TRACKWAYS.
Grinsell <1> noted this as a large bowl barrow with slightly concave sides, perhaps originally a bell-shaped barrow with a narrow berm. The mound and berm had a diameter of 40 paces and the mound was 9 feet high <1>.
This area known as 'Bumper's Hill' because it was on the edge of the old borough boundary <3>, and boys were 'bumped' during the custom of beating the bounds, to impress on them the limits of their parish (Helen Purvis - About Wash Common). This mound was probably the 'hill'.
Sources and further reading
| <01> | Berkshire Archaeological Society. 1936. Berkshire Archaeological Journal 1936 40. 40. In ADS Journals. 10.5284/1000017. p56-7 in An Analysis and List of Berkshire Barrows. [Article in serial / SWB10457]
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/berks_bas_2007/journal.cfm?volume=40 (Accessed 26/04/2016) |
| <02> | Ordnance Survey. 1960s-70s. Ordnance Survey Field Investigators Comments. F1 NVQ 02-AUG-62. [Personal observation / SWB14640] |
| <03> | Landmark. 1872-85. Digital Ordnance Survey Mapping Epoch 1, 1:2500 (25 inch). Digital. 1:2500. [Map / SWB14341] |
| <04> | Various. 1738-1858. Berkshire Enclosure Maps - online as New Landscapes. http://www.berkshirenclosure.org.uk. Newbury Wash Common 1855, Marked 'Tumulus'. [Map / SWB14663]
http://www.berkshirenclosure.org.uk (Accessed 08/02/2022) |
Related Monuments
| MWB1550 | Wash Common Barrow Cemetery (Monument) |
Associated Excavations and Fieldwork
| EWB537 | Scheduled Monument Monitoring - Watching Brief, Round Barrow Cemetery on Wash Common, Newbury (Ref: SAM 12075) |
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