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Monument Number 456648
Hob Uid: 456648
Location : Dorset Arne
Grid Ref : SY9010087300
Summary : Two Bronze Age Bowl Barrows one is 14 meters in diameter and1.8 metres high and has a surrounding ditch with an average depth of 0.3 meters and a width of 1.3 metres. The other is 6.5 meters in diameter 0.8 metres high. Part of a larger group (see SY 98 NW 3 and 5). Scheduled.
More information : ('A'-SY 90128737; 'B' - SY 90118733) Tumuli (NR) (two shown) (1) 'A' Dimensions: Diam 9 yards. Height 3ft undisturbed. 'B' Dimensions: Diam 17 yards. Height 5ft. Flat topped shallow surrounding ditch. (2) Two barrows lettered A & B, both heather covered. 'B' Diameter 14.0 metres. Height 1.8 metres. A surrounding ditch has an average depth of 0.3m. and width of 1.3 metres. This has been mutilated on the W side by a land drainage trench. No berm visible. A bowl barrow. (3) 'A' Diameter 6.5 metres; height 0.8 metres. No sign of a berm, but three trenches have been dug in what appears to be an unsurveyable ditch. No other sign of mutilation. Probably a bowl barrow. 'A' SY 90138736. Bowl barrow, possibly ditched, 38 yards NNE of 'B'. Diameter 32 feet, height 5feet. Cut by modern field boundary. 'B' SY 90128733. Ditched bowl barrow, diameter 40 ft height 4 1/2 feet. Ditch 6 1/2 feet wide and up to 9 inches deep. Scheduled.(4) Barrow `A' has been partly cut by ploughing on the south side. Barow `B' has also been partly cut by ploughing. (5)

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Source details : OS 6" Prov Edn.
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Source details : F1 NVQ 29-JUL-52
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Source details : F2 Leech RH, 06-Aug-1990
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : Bronze Age
Monument End Date : -700
Monument Start Date : -2600
Monument Type : Bowl Barrow, Barrow Cemetery
Evidence : Earthwork

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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : DO 244
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 29077
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SY 98 NW 2
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Relationship type : General association

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Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1952-07-29
End Date : 1952-07-29

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 456648