More information : SU 13067538 Tumulus (NR). (1)
Broad Hinton No 1, Ditched bowl barrow, diam 10 paces; height
1.5 feet. (2)
Smith shows a barrow at this position on Broad Hinton Down,
describing it as low, flat, bowl-shaped with no ditch and opened at the top. The only other barrows on the Down shown by him (incorrectly positioned) are two in a plantation (SU 17 NW 15). Greenwell excavated a barrow sometime between 1877 and 1889, which he described as "the only one on Hinton Down", and found a primary Bronze Age cremation with a bronze dagger at the centre. An intrusive Anglo Saxon inhumation with an iron spear head lay 3 feet west of the centre. (4)
It seems very likely that Greenwell in referring to this as the only
barrow on Hinton Down had not noticed the others in the plantation. Smith's statement that the barrow had been opened probably confirms that it was the one excavated by Greenwell.
No longer extant; destroyed by ploughing. (5)
Bronze Age bowl barrow situated 300 metres southeast of Walker's Plantation on Broad Hinton Down. It is visible as an earthwork 10 metres in diameter and 0.3 metres high. The excavations by Canon Greenwell sometime between 1877 and 1889 located a primary cremation and dagger and a intrusive Saxon inhumation accompanied by a spearhead. The spearhead indicated an early-middle Saxon date for the burial. (6-7) |