More information : (SZ 02238132) Tumulus (NR) (1)
A turf covered bowl barrow, 23.0m. diameter and 1.9m high in
the west. There are evident traces of a ditch in the eastern
quadrant which are only slight elsewhere. Square hollow on top. (2)
SZ 02238132. Ulwell Barrow, ditched bowl barrow, 74ft diameter
and 6ft high with ditch 12ft wide, on the west end of Ballard
Down. There is an excavation hollow in top and the barrow is cut
by a hedge-bank on the north. On the south where crossed by the
parish boundary is a collapsed obelisk dated 1892 (shown) on OS
6"). Excavated by Austen in 1857 who found a primary contracted
inhumation, the skull surrounded by flat stones, in a chalk-cut
grave 8ft x 5ft, associated with a handled cup of fine red ware;
antler fragments occurred in the grave filling. Near the centre
of the mound were disarticulated inhumation with urn fragments
and, slightly higher, a cremation under a flat stone with more
urn fragments. In the top of the mound were Iron Age and/or
Romano British debris and many flint chippings. (3,4)
SZ 022813. Round barrow at west end of Ballards's Down. Scheduled. (5)
This barrow, which is on grassland at 490 ft OD is in good
condition and is described by Auth 3. The obelisk which stands on
the south slope of the barrow was reerected in 1972 and stands
to its full height. (Not an antiquity) 4/89 Surveyed at 1:2500. (6)
Both inhumations were made, the intrusive one being Anglo-Saxon. (7)
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