Monument record MDO4955 - Pimperne Long Barrow, Tarrant Hinton

Earthen Neolithic long barrow situated on a chalk ridge and aligned NNW to SSE. In 1972 it was reported as 330 feet long and 65 feet wide with parallel sides and up to 9 feet high. On the eastern side it is flanked by a berm up to 10 feet wide and by a ditch 40 feet across, and up to 4 feet deep. On the western side there are traces of a narrow berm at the north and south ends, and of a ditch narrower and shallower than on the opposite side. The long barrow is incorporated into the parish boundary between Tarrant Hinton and Pimperne.

Pimperne Long Barrow (91751050), one of the finest surviving burial mounds in Wessex, lies along the boundary with Pimperne on the summit of a Chalk ridge, at an altitude of 370 ft. above O.D. Aligned from N.N.W. to S.S.E., the mound is parallel-sided, 330 ft. long, 65 ft. wide and up to 9 ft. high. On the E. it is flanked by a berm up to 10 ft. wide and by a ditch 40 ft. across, and up to 4 ft. deep. On the W. side there are traces of a narrow berm at the N. and S. ends, and of a ditch narrower and shallower than that on the E. <6>

<1> Pimperne Long Barrow/survey, Object Number: 884826. Bibliographic References : 1) Monument No.24 (Unpublished document). SDO18513.

<2> Pimperne Long Barrow/contoured survey, Object Number: 884799. Bibliographic References : 1) Monument No.24 (Unpublished document). SDO18512.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 6 inches to 1 mile, 1963 (Map). SDO11924.

(ST 91751049) Pimperne Long Barrow (NR)

<4> Boyden, J R, 03-DEC-72, JRB F63 3.12.72, AP (Boyden 3.12.72) (Aerial Photograph). SDO18507.

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/097 RCHME Inventory: Dorset IV (North), Object Number: RCH01/097 (Unpublished document). SDO17498.

<6> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 100 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(24) PIMPERNE LONG BARROW (91751050), one of the finest surviving burial mounds in Wessex lies along the boundary with Pimperne on the summit of a Chalk ridge, at an altitude of 370ft. above O.D. Aligned from N.N.W. to S.S.E., the mound is parallel-sided, 330ft. Long, 65ft. Wide and up to 9ft. High. On the W. side there are traces of a narrow berm at the N. and S. end, and of a ditch narrower and shallower than that on the E. (Sumner, Cranborne Chase 75-6 and pl. xlvi.)'

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210178 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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