Monument record MDO8604 - Round Barrow, Lansdowne, Bournemouth

Round barrow marked as an earthwork on the 1888 Ordnance Survey 25 inch map. <1>

It was part of a school playground by the beginning of the twentieth century <2> and built over by the 1920s <3>.

The barrow had been dug into by John Mills when he was a boy in 1874. Four undecorated urns were recovered, the central one with a capstone. The finds are now lost. <4-6>

SZ 0942 9146: Tumulus (NR) (Site of) Urns found in 1874. <7> 1874 urns found but destroyed. <8> Site now built over. <9>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1900, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch two (Map). SDO11594.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1923-33, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch three (Map). SDO11595.

<4> Calkin, J B, 1962, 'The Bournemouth Area in the Middle and Late Bronze Age with the 'Deverel-Rimbury' Problem Reconsidered' The Archaeological Journal, 5 (Article in serial). SWX9177.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1940, Hampshire Barrows; Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society 14, 363 (Article in serial). SWX3470.

<6> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Records, SZ 09 SE 25 (Index). SDO131.

<7> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1940 (Map). SWX1197.

<8> Hampshire Field Club, 1940, Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society 14, 363 (Serial). SDO16930.

<9> Colquhoun, F D, Field Investigators Comments FDC, F1 FDC 16-NOV-51 (Unpublished document). SWX2609.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 458138 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 16 2022 10:57AM