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Monument Number 456906
Hob Uid: 456906
Location : Dorset Church Knowle, Steeple with Tyneham
Grid Ref : SY9210082330
Summary : A Bronze Age bowl barrow on Creech Barrow Hill, extant as a badly disturbed earthwork mound up to 22 metres across and 3 metres high. The surrounding ditch is now barely traceable on the surface. The name Creech Barrow does not seem to refer to this barrow
More information : (SY 92108233) Tumulus (NR). (1) A bowl barrow, large and ditched, hollow in centre. On Creech Barrow, but the name almost certainly refers to the hill and not to the barrow on the hill.(2) This barrow has been badly mutilated by excavation in the North East quadrant and a hollow measuring 8.0m long, 5.0m wide and 1.3m deep remains. It has also been mutilated by a modern boundary bank and ditch C-D. The barrow is 22.0m A-B and 19.0m C-D and has a maximum height of 3.0m. It has a ditch in the South-East quadrant 2.5m wide and 0.3m deep. Bowl Barrow. (3) The area, including the barrow is densely overgrown with bracken. 'Creech Barrow' does not refer to this barrow. SW 92108233. Ditched bowl barrow on end of spur projecting south from Creech Barrow hill, crossed west of centre by the parish boundary bank with Steeple. Diameter 75 feet, height about 6ft. Possibly the barrow excavated by Austen on Creech Hill (see SY 98 SW 50). (4) SY 921823. Creech Barrow. Scheduled. (5) SY 92108233. Church Knowle 13. Bowl barrow listed. (6) This vegetation - covered and gutted round barrow is situated on a shelf of a steep south-west facing hill-slope. The dimensions are generally as noted in 1952 (3) but only the west side bears any resemblance to a barrow because the remainder is so badly disturbed. The ditch is barely traceable. Resurveyed at 1:2500.(7)

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Source details : OS 6" 1929
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Source details : Grinsell, LV. Dorset Barrows Mss
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Source details : F1 JR 17-JUL-52
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Source details : Dept Of Environment (Insp Ancient Mons) Ancient Monuments of England 2, 1978, p62
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Source details : Grinsell, LV. 1959. Dorset Barrows, p101
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Source details : F2 MJF 01-MAY-86
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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
Evidence : Earthwork

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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : DO 732
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 28308
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SY 98 SW 7
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1952-07-17
End Date : 1952-07-17

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1983-01-01
End Date : 1994-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1986-05-01
End Date : 1986-05-01

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 456906