Monument record MDO5350 - Bowl barrow, East Down House, Winterborne Whitechurch

Three barrows (86310078, 86330080 and 86340077) close together in East Down Plantation were destroyed in 1908 when East Down House was built. Th northernmost, 30 ft. in diam. and 8 ft. high, was dug up by J.C. Mansel-Pleydell and was found to contain a primary cremation in a large 'bucket' urn set in central chalk-cut cist; above it lay a broken secondary globular urn, the mound appears to have contained a low internal flint wall, within which were extensive traces of fire. No details are available for the other two barrows, but a small 'bucket' urn and fragments of a globular urn may have come from them. Now in the Pike Collection Dorset County Museum. Acc. No. 1952.1. The primary urn is in the same Museum. Acc. No. 1914.6.1. (a). <2-4>.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred ST 863007) Tumuli

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1953, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1952, 104-106 (Serial). SDO52.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 157-158 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 314 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘Three barrows (86310078 …) close together in East Down Plantation were destroyed in 1908 when East Down House was built. The northernmost … was dug by J. C. Mansel-Pleydell … No details are available for the other two barrows, but a small 'bucket' urn and fragments of a globular urn may have come from them (Dorset Procs. LXXIV (1952), 104–6; Ant. J. XIII (1933), 448).’

<4.1> A L Pike, 1914-1916, Dorset County Museum Correspondence 1914-1916 (Unpublished document). SDO17818.

<4.1> Society of Antiquaries of London, 1933, The Antiquaries Journal 13, 448 (Serial). SDO16730.

<5> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred ST 863007) Tumuli (NR) (sites of) (NAT) (two shown).

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205660 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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