| Summary : A bowl barrow, part of the Oakley Down barrow group (SU 01 NW 19). Listed by RCHME as Wimborne St Giles 99 and by Grinsell as Wimborne St Giles 22a-c, it was described by RCHME as a low elongated mound aligned southwest-northeast and damaged by ploughing. The mound measured 95 feet by 40 feet, and 3.5 feet high. No side ditches were visible. Grinsell suggested that the mound in fact comprised 3 confluent bowl barrows, something implied by the location of the cremations found when the mound was excavated by Cunnington and Hoare in the early 19th century. Hoare's barrow 22, it "contained three interments. That towards the north consisted of ashes and burned bones enclosed within a cist. That towards the south produced a similar deposit within a very large urn of coarse and thick pottery, together with a pair of bone tweezers. The central interment was also enclosed within a sepulchral urn of rude pottery, together with one amber bead". Hoare thought it was a long barrow, though its comparatively small size and the anomalous position of the burials were noted by him. |