Monument record MDO1827 - White Horse Hill, Bronze Age barrow

'B' (SY 72438421) Ploughed bowl barrow of uncertain diameter but 1ft high.

Grinsell and RCHM stated that one of these barrows was probably Tumulus No 5 excavated by Warne circa 1866 at Osmington Charity Down on the Ridgeway. Warne discovered a primary cremation in a barrel-shaped urn ornamented with a chevron pattern (destroyed on exposure) which had been placed in a central cavity, 18 ins. Deep, cut into the natural chalk. Two contracted secondary inhumations were also found; one situated 4ft from the summit of the mound "enclosed in a rude dome of well packed flints" and the other immediately below the surface of the barrow. <1> <2> <4>

'B' SY 72438421. Bowl barrow, diameter approximately 22.0m, height 1.2m. No visible ditch. Both barrows lie in arable and are considerably ploughed down. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <5>

One of two bowl barrows on the eastern side of White Horse Hill. Visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. <7>

<1> Warne, C, 1866, The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866), mopr 32-33 (Monograph). SWX8166.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 122 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 72388421; SY 72438421) Tumuli (NR)

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 447 (Monograph). SDO150.

(36) Bowl (SY 78 SW; 72438421) 60 yds. E. of (35). Diam. uncertain, ht. 1 ft. Ploughed.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 10-JUL-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<7> 06-DEC-2006, NMR SY 7284/7-11 (NMR24498/18-23) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11756.

<8> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454357 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 6 2023 4:50PM