| Summary : A bowl barrow, part of the group of barrows spread across Oakley Down (SU 01 NW 19). Listed by RCHME as Wimborne ST Giles 118 and by Grinsell as Wimborne St Giles 2, RCHME described it as being "much spread by ploughing" but visible as a mound 68 feet in diameter and 4 feet high. It is cut on its southeast side by the A354. It was excavated early in the 19th century by Cunnington and Hoare (their barrow 2). Four feet below the surface they found the skeleton of a very young person aligned north-south. At five feet down they found a cremation deposit accompanied by a bone pin and some bone beads (Devizes Museum lists a bone pin and "fragments of bone"). At a depth of 9 feet was another inhumation, again aligned north-south. Both RCHME and Grinsell assume this to be the primary interment. |