Monument record MDO1765 - Bowl barrow north of Emmanuel's Cross, Netherbury

A bowl barrow located at the top of a hill 230 metres north east of Great Strode House. The barrow has a mound, reduced in size by ploughing but previously recorded as having a diameter of 20 metres, surviving to a height of 1 metre. Surrounding the mound is a quarry ditch which has become infilled over the years but survives as a buried feature about 3 metres wide. It lies in the corner of a modern field and has been mutilated by ploughing.

A barrow in Netherebury parish, omitted from 'Dorset Barrows' has been reported by N H Field. It is situated north of Emmanuel Cross, at SY 458991. <1>

SY 4582 9897. A bowl-barrow some 36 feet across and 6 feet high was discovered North of Emmanuel's Cross in 1960. <2>

The site of a Bronze Age barrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs to the south west of Higher Hingsdon Farm <3-4>. It lies in the corner of a modern field, is approximately 12m across, and has been mutilated by ploughing. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1972, Witchcraft at barrows and other prehistoric sites. Antiquity, 46 (181), 58-59 (Article in serial). SDO19055.

'There is a barrow in Netherbury parish which was omitted from Dorset Barrows (Grinsell, 1959) but has since been tracked down by N. H. Field (pers. comm., the site is north of Emmanuel Cross at SY 458991).'

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 46 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<4> National Monuments Record, 10-JAN-2007, NMR SY 4598/1-5 (NMR 24506/40-44) (Aerial Photograph). SDO14300.

<4> GetMapping, 2014, Digital vertical aerial photographs, SY4598.ecw (Aerial Photograph). SDO14101.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 449997 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 864316 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Probable duplicate

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Oct 22 2024 2:39PM