Monument record MDO3797 - Round barrow, Farnham

A possible round barrow located south of the former Pitt Rivers Museum at Farnham. Grinsell first noted it prior to 1939, describing it in 1959 as almost levelled.

BARROWS (2) 'A'[ST 9585 1432] 'B' [ST 95901449]. <1>

[ST 9585 1434] a vague elevation in the hedge may indicate the site of a barrow which is virtually ploughed out. Under the plough on both sides of the hedge. B - ST9590 1449 - No trace of a barrow. The area is under the plough. <3>

Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1986, Dorset Barrow Survey, Papworth, M D J 31 January 1986 (Index). SDO134.

'Visible as a faint swelling on the NW side of a hedge which crosses the barrow NE-SW. There is no trace of the barrow on the SE side both fields heavily ploughed and newly ploughed when visited. There is a swelling in the hedge-line when viewed from the NW. A road lies immediately to W - it deviates from its NW-SE alignment at this point as if to avoid this site.'

<1> Crawford, O G S, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments: O G S Crawford (Verbal communication). SDO18359.

<1.1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Object Name Book (ONB) reference, 13.3.50 (Monograph). SWX8217.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 12-APR-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 108 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210076 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 11 2024 3:53PM