More information : ('A' - SP 76760063; 'B' - 76770065) Tumuli (NR) (1)
SP 767006. On the summit of Chinnor Hill there is a ? twin bowl-
barrow, enclosed in the same ditch, and measuring overall 135ft
long and by 75ft wide and 7ft high. Dyer states that it is
possible a kidney-shaped barrow as at Whiteleaf, Bucks (SP 80
SW 1). An iron spearhead and bronze chape were found here in
1885 (2). Meaney quoting VCH speaks of one of the twin barrows
on Hempton Plain, Chinnor situated 400 yds S of Bledlow Cross
(SE 767 006) that was opened by a labourer (a) in 1885 (b) who
found a revetment wall around its edge, just below the turf.
Although no burial is mentioned, the associated AS finds of two
spearheads, a bronze chape and javelin were in the possession
of H Stevens of Hempton, and were seen and sketched by P Manning
FSA. Another spearhead was found on the same farm after a landslip
(a). (2-3)
Two contiguous bowl barrows 'A' and 'B' enclosed within a
single ditch on the summit of the chalk escarpment under rough
grass and scrub.
'A' measures c 20.0m in diameter by 1.7m high with the top
disturbed by digging. 'B' measures c 24.0m in diameter by 0.8m
high also with the top disturbed. The ditch enclosing both barrows
has been eroded on the lower side but elsewhere it is c 0.7m deep.
Re-surveyed at 1:2500. (4)
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