Monument record MDO5057 - Bowl barrow, one of the Hyde Hill Plantation Group, Tarrant Launceston

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, which is known as barrow "H" of the Hyde Hill Plantation group. It is heavily reduced by ploughing. It comprises of a circular mound which measures 13.5m in diameter which is surrounded by a ring ditch. The overall diameter is 16m. The height was originally described as approximately 30cm. Survives as a slight mound.

ST 95341024. Remains of a bowl barrow, part of the Hyde Hill plantation group. The barrow mound has been reduced by ploughing but survives as an earthwork. Scheduled. <5>

The Bronze Age round barrow referred to as barrow "H" 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 1947 but has subsequently been ploughed level and is visible as a soilmark by 1982. The barrow is centred at ST 9534 1025 and measures 16m in diameter. It comprises a circular mound which measures 13.5m in diameter which is surrounded by a ring ditch. <1, 4>

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

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 2149-2150, NMR RAF/CPE/UK/1934 2149-2150 17-JAN-1947 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18433.

<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) … (30) Bowl (95341024), heavily ploughed; diam. 40 ft., ht. 1 ft.'

<4> Untitled Source, NMR OS/82203 150-151 13-SEP-1982 (Unspecified Type). SDO18438.

<5> DCMS, 2002, Scheduled Monument Notification EH Scheduling amendment, 24JULY-2002, 24-Jul-02 (Scheduling record). SDO17857.

<6> Bishop, Sharon, 2009, Tarrant Launceston 15 & Environs. Aerial Photograph Survey and Analysis, Object Number MD002384 (Unpublished document). SDO12459.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1306222 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 22 2025 4:51PM