Monument record MDO5054 - Bowl barrow, one of the Hyde Hill Plantation Group, Tarrant Launceston

RCHME described it as a mound nearly levelled by ploughing but circa 28 feet in diameter.

This barrow was originally recorded as part of ST 91 SE 61.

The Bronze Age round barrow referred to as barrow "E" within the Hyde Hill Plantation group (ST 91 SE 61 / UID: 210105 (see also ST 91 SE 193 to 204)) is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs taken in 1943 but has subsequently been ploughed level. It is centred at ST 9516 1040 and comprises a circular mound which measures 8m in diameter. The barrow appears to have been ploughed level on aerial photographs taken in 1988. <1, 4>

<1> Royal Air Force, 13-JAN-1943, RAF/HLA/651 1137-1138, NMR RAF/HLA/651 1137-1138 13-JAN-1943 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18390.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 135 (Monograph). SDO132.

<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) … (27) Bowl (95161040), now nearly levelled by ploughing; diam. About 28 ft.'

<4> Ordnance Survey, 24-APR-1988, NMR OS/88055 188-189, NMR OS/88055 188-189 24-APR-1988 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18378.

<5> Bishop, Sharon, 2009, Tarrant Launceston 15 & Environs. Aerial Photograph Survey & Analysis (Unpublished document). SDO12459.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1306201 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 8 2024 12:48PM