| Summary : A bowl barrow, part of the Oakley Down barrow group (SU 01 NW 19). Listed by RCHME as Wimborne St Giles 98 and by Grinsell as Wimborne St Giles 18, it was described by RCHME as a mound 70 feet in diameter and 7 feet high. It was excavated in the early 19th century by Cunnington and Hoare (their barrow 18), who described it as "a large circular bowl-shaped barrow, ditched round. At the depth of seven feet and a half, and on the floor, lay a skeleton with its head to the north-east, and its legs and thighs drawn up close together. The skull was pressed flat, and near it lay part of a deer's horn, perforated in the stem...". The perforated antler is in Devizes Museum. In 1941, two secondary cremations were found. Each was in an urn lying on its side just below the surface. One was covered by 5 or 6 large flints. Nearby, in 1949, an unaccompanied inhumation was found, also just below the surface of the mound. |