Monument record MDO641 - Round barrow on Low or Louse Hill, Castleton

Possible barrow revealed in face of quarry, August 1915, when urn with bones (not burnt), ashes and flint flakes found. Bones and parts or urn in Sherborne Museum.

Objects connected with a prehistoric burial recently found in Low Hill quarry, consisting of flint flakes, a boar's tooth, a doe-deer horn, etc, were exhibited. Capt Acland thought the interment was probably Bronze Age. <1>

Bronze Age pottery, now in Sherborne Castle Museum, found at ('C') ST 60871608. Arrowheads found at ('A') ST 60691609, and a Bronze Age urn at ('B') ST 60721610. The evidence points to a one-time barrow. <3>

There is a round barrow, 80 ft in diameter with a ditch visible on the north side, situated 2000 ft north-west of Silverlake Cottages (ST 61401569). A circular mark 500 ft to the north east and 60 ft in diameter is probably a barrow. In 1910 human remains were found between these barrows. <4>

The sites fall in arable land upon the summit of a ridge. There are no surface traces of a barrow to be seen. Low Hill Quarry is now disused and overgrown. <5>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1916, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club for 1916, XXX (Serial). SDO25.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, 1927 (Map). SDO10373.

(Centred at 60811608). Human remains found AD 1910 (NAT).

<3> Bean, C E, Annotated record map Corr 6", May 1954 (Map). SDO16337.

<4> RCHM Unpublished Revision Dorset 1 - West Undated, No 14 23.9.76 (Unpublished document). SWX1659.

<5> Phillips, A S, Various, Field Investigators Comments ASP, F1 ASP 28-NOV-77 (Unpublished document). SWX3817.

<6> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 35 (Monograph). SWX1703.

'Possible barrow revealed in face of quarry, Aug. 1915, when urn with bones (not burnt), ashes and flint flakes found. Bones and parts of urn in Sherborne Museum. Fowler 1951, 16, n.l.'

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 199413 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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