| Summary : The monument includes six bowl barrows situated upon a ridge known as Blacknoll Hill. The barrows form the core of a wider group of 12 which, together, form a round barrow cemetery on the western part of Winfrith Heath. The barrows each have a mound composed of earth, sand and turf, with maximum dimensions of between 11 to 22 metres in diameter and between 0.75 to 1.5 metres in height. Each mound is surrounded by a ditch from which material was quarried during the construction of the monument. The ditches have become infilled over the years, but each will survive as a buried feature about 2 metres wide. |
More information : (Centred SY 806863) Tumuli (NR) (four shown) (1)
Two further barrows are shown at 'E' - SY 80648630 and 'F' - SY
80648628. (2)
A group of six heather- covered mounds, probably all bowl
barrows, without berm or ditch, are situated on Blacknoll Hill.
No surface finds were made. 'A' - SY 80608632. Mutilated bowl
barrow, 17.5m diameter and 2.0m high surmounted by an OS
triangulation station. A large trench has been cut in the north
half of the mound, probably for military purposes.
'B' - SY 80628630. Bowl barrow, 10.5m diameter and 1.9m high is
mutilated at the extreme edge of the south quadrant by a small
slit trench.
'C' - SY 80658630. Bowl barrow, 10.0m diameter and 1.8m high
appears to be unmutilated.
'D' - SY 80668628. Irregular bowl barrow, approx 15.0m diamter;
the height of the east quadrant being 0.8m and that on the west,
2.4m high. The northern extremity has been defaced by a shallow
pit dug against the barrow.
'E' - SY 80648630. Elongated bowl barrow; the north east - south
west axis measures 13.0m and the north west - south east axis
10.5m with a height of 1.7m. Slight mutilation occurs on the
south west and at the extreme edge of the south quadrant where a
shallow pit has been dug.
'F' - SY 80658628. A low circular platform, possibly a bowl
barrow, approx 9.5m diameter, which merges into the general
ground level on the west side but on the east has a height of
1.0m. There is a slight depression in the south quadrant.
There are numberous small pits on the top of the hill, some of
which may have a military origin, anothers probably the result
of gravel digging. (3)
Five much disturbed bowl barrows on Blackholl. (4)
'A' - (42) SY 80608633. Bowl barrow, about 63ft diameter and 8ft
high with trigonometrical station of top. Grinsell No 4.
'B' - (43) SY 80628631. Bowl barrow, 33ft diameter and 5ft high.
Grinsell No 5.
'E' - (44) SY 80658630. Bowl barrow, about 35 ft diameter and 5
1/2ft high. Grinsell No 6.
'C' - (45) SY 8066828. Bowl barrow, 33ft diameter and 5 ft high.
Grinsell No 7.
'D' - SY 80688627. (?) Bowl barrow, 48ft diameter and 8ft high,
20 yds south-east of Barrow 'C'. Grinsell No 12.
(This mound may be one of the barrows 'E' and 'F' seen by N.V
Quinnell, Authy,3, in 1952). (5)
SY 866863. Five round barrows on Blacknoll Hill. Scheduled. (6)
The bowl barrows now gorse covered approximate to the
descriptions and measurements of Authority (3) excepting the
possible traces of ditches (see plan).
Corrected N.G.R.'s are as follows:-
'A'. - SY 80608632; 'B' - SY 80618631; 'C' - SY 80648630;
'D' - SY 80658629; 'E' - SY 80638631; 'F' - SY 80628629;
Surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (7)
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