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MONUMENT NO. 451937

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Bronze Age bowl barrow (Winterborne St Martin 141) located within the area enclosed by Maiden Castle hillfort (SY 68 NE 7), towards the western end of its interior. It is still extant as an earthwork 20 metres in diameter and 0.7 metres high. It has a central depression indicative of early excavation, but no record of any such activity survives. However, it has been suggested by Mortimer Wheeler that the barrow (SY 68 NE 105) which Cunnington claimed to have excavated at "the East end" of Maiden Castle was in fact this one.

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(SY 66628843) Tumulus (NR) (1)

Bowl barrow inside Maiden Castle; 48 feet diameter by 1 foot high. Hollowed on top. (Possibly excavated by Cunnington in 1865. See SY 68 NE 105).(2-3)

SY 66618843. Bowl barrow under permanent pasture. Diameter 20.0m., height 0.7m. No visible ditch.

Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (4)

The monument was surveyed as part of the Maiden Castle project during 1984-1985, for further information see archive collection (5).

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(1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1963

(2a) by R E M Wheeler 1943 Maiden Castle, Dorset

Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of LondonNo.1 (1913) - no.12 Page(s)7

(2) Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England) 1970 An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset. Volume two : south-east [in three parts]

part 3 Page(s)471

(3) by L V Grinsell 1959 Dorset barrows

Page(s)155

(4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 JGB 21-MAY-80

(5) Field Investigators Comments

RCHME Field Investigation 1984-1985 MC Corney DS McOmish C Dunn M Bowden

(6) N M Sharples 1991 Maiden Castle : excavations and field survey 1985-6

English Heritage archaeological reportsNo.1 (1985) - no.24 (1994) no.19 Page(s)41-2

(7) Scheduled Monument Notification

24-SEP-1997

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