| Summary : A bowl barrow, part of the Oakley Down barrow group (SU 01 NW 19). Listed by RCHME as Wimborne St Giles 96 and by Grinsell as Wimborne St Giles 21, it was described by RCHME as a plough-damaged mound 40 feet in diameter and 1 foot high. It was excavated in the early 19th century by Cunnington and Hoare (their barrow 21) who reported that it was "a small low barrow, in which we found a little cist full of charcoal very finely burned, and on the outside of it, some fragments of coarse pottery, and burned bone, which indicated a prior opening". More recently, Martin Green has reported finding pottery including sherds from a Deverel-Rimbury globular urn on the surface after ploughing. This might suggest that what Hoare found was evidence of secondary interments rather than previous disturbance? |