Monument record MDO5056 - Bowl barrow, one of the Hyde Hill Plantation Group, Tarrant Launceston

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, which is known as barrow "G" of the Hyde Hill Plantation group. Consists of a plough-levelled mound 8m in diameter surrounded by a ring ditch. The overall diameter is 10m.

See ST 91 SE 61 <3, 4>

The Bronze Age round barrow referred to as barrow "G" within the Hyde Hill Plantation group (ST 91 SE 61 / UID: 210105 (see also ST 91 SE 193 to 204)) is visible as a slight earthwork on aerial photographs taken in 1947 but has subsequently been ploughed level and is visible as a soilmark by 1959. The barrow is centred at ST 9529 1033 and measures 10m in diameter. It comprises a circular mound which measures 8m in diameter which is surrounded by a ring ditch. <1, 2>

This barrow was formerly described as part of ST 91 SE 61.

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 2150-2151, NMR CPE/UK/1934 2150-2151 17-JAN-1947 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18435.

<2> Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography, 13-MAY-1959, CUCAP XY93-XY94, CUCAP XY93-XY94 13-MAY-1959 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18437.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 135 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> 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) … (29) Bowl (92581032), now levelled by ploughing; former diam. about 21 ft.'

<5> Bishop, Sharon, 2009, Tarrant Launceston 15 & Environs. Aerial Photograph Survey & Analysis, Object Number MD002384 (Unpublished document). SDO12459.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1306219 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 8 2024 12:48PM