More information : (TQ 09141009) Barrow 34ft diameter with no trace of a ditch. A central oval cist contained a cremation and some LBA sherds. It is possibly associated with the LBA farm (TQ 00 NE 1) (Sited from plan p79). (1) Bowl barrow, situated upon a gentle W slope just below the crest of a downland ridge, within a field under wheat stubble, at TQ 09101007. It has a diameter of 10.0m and a maximum height of 0.3m. There are no signs of a ditch. Surveyed at 1:2500. (2)
The excavation details were re-examined as a result of RCHME fieldwork at the Harrow Hill (TQ 01 SE 23) and Blackpatch (TQ 00 NE 5) flint mines, which formed part of a project to record traces of Neolithic flint mining in England. See those site records for further details. The excavation was hurried, and in advance of ploughing, and as a result details are rather scanty. However, the barrow appears to have been a rather low mound comprising an eight inch thick deposit of large flints laid on the chalk. There are clear parallels here with a number of the burial mounds associated with the Blackpatch mines. Those, however, were generally associated with Beaker and Collared Urn sherds, and would thus be earlier than this particular deposit (Densham does not illustrate the pottery, but refers to it only as LBA, although subsequent developments in the chronology of prehistoric pottery suggests that if he had identified the sherds correctly, then an MBA date would be more appropriate now). (3) |