More information : (NB. For details of the two other barrows originally recorded as part of this record please see Monument HOB UID 1461384 - SU 13 NW 273 and HOB UID 1461385 - SU 13 NW 274).
Barrow A: (SU 13333738) Tumuli (NR) (1) One of three bowl barrows of the Little Down Group: Barrow A, Durnford 1; ditched, in fine condition, 23 paces x 6 feet. This barrow together with Barrow B, Durnford 2 (Monument HOB UID 1461386 - SU 13 NW 274) was probably opened during 1731-2: in one, two urns filled with ashes (secondary); in the other, a skeleton and spearhead (uncertain whether Early Bronze Age or intrusive and pagan Saxon). (2) Barrow A, a ditched bowl barrow 2.5 metres high with ditches 0.5 metres deep.
Published 1:2500 survey revised. (3)
Additional reference (4)
One of two barrows recorded as earthworks and mapped from on aerial photographs. Durnford 1 is visible as a mound surrounded by a ditch and has a diameter of 20 metres. It appears to have indentations in the top, possibly the result of eighteenth century excavations or erosion by modern visitors. (5) |