Monument record MDO5050 - Bowl barrow, one of the Hyde Hill Plantation Group, Tarrant Launceston

Barrow "A" is a Bronze Age bowl barrow lying within the plantation itself, RCHME described the barrow as a mound 45 feet in diameter and 2.5 feet high, with traces of a surrounding ditch.

The Bronze Age round barrow referred to as barrow "A" within the Hyde Hill Plantation group is visible as a slight earthwork on aerial photographs. It is centred at ST 9509 1041 and comprises a circular mound which measures 17.5m in diameter. <5>

Details of barrow: (A) Bowl (95081041), in the plantation; diam. 45 ft., ht. 2 1/2 ft., with traces of surrounding ditch.

Barrow "A" is recorded here and the other 12 barrows, previously described here, have now been recorded separately, as ST 91 SE 193 to 204.

<1> Warne, C, 1866, The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866), p51, [My Own Personal Researches: tumuli 39 and 40] (Monograph). SWX8166.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 6 inches to 1 mile, 1963 (Map). SDO11924.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 106-7 (Monograph). SDO99.

'The Hyde Hill Plantation Group comprises thirteen barrows (23-35) in two concentrations in and S.E. of the plantation; they lie between 340 ft. and 360 ft. above O.D. along the crest of a broad Chalk ridge between the Tarrant and Crichel Brooks. Most of them have been severely damaged by ploughing and (28), (29), (31) and (35) have been obliterated. Two barrows excavated by Warne in 1840 probably lay in this group; one of them yielded a primary cremation under a flint cairn, the other yielded only charcoal and ashes (C.T.D., Pt. 1, Nos. 39 and 40). The 'Launceston Sepulchralia' examined by Warne in 1840 probably lay in this area; it appears to have been a cremation cemetery, with the cremations in groups of holes in the chalk, each group being covered with a layer of closely packed flint nodules (C.T.D., Pt. 1, 57-8; Arch. J., CVIII (1951), 14, note 1). (23) Bowl (95081041), in the plantation; diam. 45 ft., ht.2½ ft., with traces of surrounding ditch.'

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, p51 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 24-APR-1988, NMR OS/88055 188-189, NMR OS/88055 188-189 24-APR-1988 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18378.

<6> DCMS, 2002, Scheduled Monument Notification EH Scheduling amendment, 24JULY-2002, EH Scheduling amendment, 24-JUL-2002 (Scheduling record). SDO17857.

<7> Bishop, Sharon, 2009, Tarrant Launceston 15 & Environs. Aerial Photograph Survey & Analysis, Object Number: MD002384 (Unpublished document). SDO12459.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210105 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 12 2024 4:24PM