Monument record MDO7250 - Wardstone Barrow, Chaldon Herring

A bowl barrow on a prominent ridge and visible as an earthwork. In 1970 this monument was recorded as around 44 feet in diameter with a mound 6 feet high. A hollow in the mound is the result of antiquarian investigation in 1867 which revealed a cremation, probably the primary burial. The cremation was in a bucket urn and descriptions suggest that it was set on the original ground surface and covered by a flat stone.

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1956, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1955, 127-128 (Serial). SDO55.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 441 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(36) Wardstone Barrow, bowl (SY 78 SE; 79348133). On N. shoulder of coastal ridge on site prominent from N. Diam. 44 ft., ht. 6 ft., but hollowed by excavation in 1867 which revealed, near the middle and on the original ground surface, a probably primary cremation in a bucket urn, now destroyed, covered by a flat stone (Dorset Procs. LXXVII (1955),127-8). The barrow was probably at the angle of a ‘Celtic’ field. ‘

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