Monument record MDO8553 - Round Barrow Kinson 3, Kinson, Bournemouth

A Bronze Age ditched bowl barrow on Kinson Heath, excavated in 1948 in advance of development. The barrow mound had been damaged and no trace of a central burial was revealed. A group of eleven secondary urned cremation burials were found and three small pits containing burnt material, but only one with cremated human bone.

The area has now been developed and there is no evidence of the barrows. <3>

B: Apparently originally a ditched bowl barrow of about 46 feet diameter with an outer ditch. There was no primary burial, but the south east quadrant contained eleven urns of Deverel Rimbury type, five of which contained cremations; and three pits two of which contained cremations. The barrow had been much mutilated. <4>

Bronze Age ditched bowl barrow on Kinson Heath. It was excavated in 1948, in advance of development. The barrow mound was about 46 feet in diameter and had been damaged by the digging of a pit in the centre, possibly by the Home Guard in WW2. No trace of a central burial was found. The mound was constructed of layers of sand and gravel sealing an old ground surface. A group of eleven secondary urned cremation burials were found in the south east quadrant of the barrow and three small pits containing burnt material, but only one with cremated human bone. The urns were of Deverel Rimbury type. <4>

<1> Wallace, W G, 1919-23, Bournemouth Natural Science Society 6" map and private notes (Article in serial). SDO17433.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1932/8 (Map). SWX1540.

B: SZ 0644 9558: Tumulus

<3> Colquhoun, F D, Field Investigators Comments FDC, F1 FC 22-NOV-51 (Unpublished document). SWX2609.

<4> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1959, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1958, 133-145 (Serial). SDO58.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457749 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Dec 4 2023 2:11PM