Monument record MDO43306 - Barrow cemetery on Redman's Hill, Horton Common, Horton

A small group of Bronze Age bowl barrows close together on a low spur extending south east from Redman's Hill. All the barrows have been dug into in the past, presumably by antiquarians, and the surrounding ground is much disturbed by hollow-ways.

A group of Bronze Age round barrows on Redman's Hill, Horton. The site was digitally plotted from aerial photographs <3-4> during the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1970 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred at SU 07520726) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 37 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘Seven barrows are known, four of them in a compact group on Horton Common. A barrow ‘on Horton Heath’, possibly one of the group, yielded a barrel urn of ‘South Lodge’ type, now in D.C.M. (Dorset Procs. XXIX (1908), 138; Ant. J., XIII (1933), 445; Arch. J., CXIX (1962), 54-55, fig. 7). … Horton Common Group consists of four barrows close together on a low spur extending S.E. from Redman's Hill. All have been dug into in the past and the surrounding ground is much disturbed by hollow-ways. (19) Bowl (07530724); diam. 30 ft., ht. 3 ft.'

<3> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RP 3088-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15595.

<4> Royal Air Force, 29-SEP-1945, RAF/CPE/UK/850 V 5017-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15598.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 212940 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 7 2024 2:00PM