EDO741 - Hengistbury Head Round Barrow 12; excavation 1919

St George Gray excavated this round barrow (which he called Mound H) in July 1919. A trench originally 8.8m by 3m was initially dug through this barrow, then subsequently enlarged. The barrow mound survived 0.6m high and comprised sand and flint pebbles with a layer of sandy topsoil over. The mound sealed an old land surface represented by 'tufts of heather and fern'. A single urned cremation was recovered in roughly the centre of the mound dug into a small pit with the rim of the Collared Urn roughly at old ground surface level. This was probably the primary burial. Parts of two other pots were also recovered from the southern part of the barrow associated with charcoal and burnt deposits of oak and hazel.