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Bull Barrow
Hob Uid: 213106
Location : Dorset Holt
Grid Ref : SU0555004990
Summary : A bowl barrow situated near the north edge of Holt Heath, overlooking the valley of Mannington Brook. The barrow survives to a height of 1.3m and covers an area 16m in diameter. A quarry ditch is visible on the north and south sides as a depression up to 2m wide. Flint flakes, cores and scrapers have been found near th barrow. Scheduled.
More information : (SU 05550499) Bull Barrow (NR) (1) (32) BULL BARROW (05550499), bowl, near the N. edge of Holt Heath overlooks the valley of Mannington Brook at 90 ft. above O.D. It is 48 ft. in diam. and 4 1/2 ft. high; the top of the mound has been disturbed by digging. Either from this barrow or from one of the same name in Woolland (Dorset III, 317) came a sharpened deer bone (Barrow Diggers, 77, pl. 5, No 16). (2) Ditched bowl barrow; the ditch is visible on the north and south quadrants only. Surveyed at 1:2500. (3) Two hollow scrapers, eight flakes showing secondary signs of working, seventy-seven flakes and 16 cores or cone fragments have been reserved from mound erosion debris. (4)

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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : Bronze Age
Monument End Date : -700
Monument Start Date : -2600
Monument Type : Bowl Barrow, Findspot
Evidence : Earthwork, Find

Components and Objects:

Period : Bronze Age
Component Monument Type : Bowl Barrow, Findspot
Object Type : FLAKE, CORE, SCRAPER (TOOL)
Object Material : Flint

Related Records from other datasets:

External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : DO 106
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Dorset)
External Cross Reference Number : 32
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 29595
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SU 00 SE 1
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Activity type : EXCAVATION
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1962-05-23
End Date : 1962-05-23

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Bull Barrow