Monument record MDO5062 - Bowl barrow, one of the Hyde Hill Plantation Group, Tarrant Launceston

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, known as barrow "N" within the Hyde Hill Plantation group. It was described by RCHME as a plough-levelled mound 33 feet in diameter, and 1.5 feet high.

The Bronze Age round barrow referred to as barrow "N" within the Hyde Hill Plantation group (ST 91 SE 61 / UID: 210105) is not visible on the available aerial photographs. Other round barrows in the cemetery are recorded as ST 91 SE 193 to 204, 233, 234, 236 and ST 91 SW 116. <3>

This barrow was formerly recorded as part of ST 91 SE 61

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 135 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 106-7 (Monograph). SDO99.

'The Hyde Hill Plantation Group comprises thirteen barrows (23-35) in two concentrations in and S.E. of the plantation; they lie between 340 ft. and 360 ft. above O.D. along the crest of a broad Chalk ridge between the Tarrant and Crichel Brooks. Most of them have been severely damaged by ploughing and (28), (29), (31) and (35) have been obliterated. Two barrows excavated by Warne in 1840 probably lay in this group; one of them yielded a primary cremation under a flint cairn, the other yielded only charcoal and ashes (C.T.D., Pt. 1, Nos. 39 and 40). The 'Launceston Sepulchralia' examined by Warne in 1840 probably lay in this area; it appears to have been a cremation cemetery, with the cremations in groups of holes in the chalk, each group being covered with a layer of closely packed flint nodules (C.T.D., Pt. 1, 57-8; Arch. J., CVIII (1951), 14, note 1) … (35) Bowl (95451024), now levelled by ploughing; former diam. 33 ft., ht. 1½ ft.'

<3> Bishop, Sharon, 2009, Tarrant Launceston 15 & Environs. Aerial Photograph Survey and Analysis, S.Bishop/09-SEP-2008: Tarrant Launceston 15 and environs aerial photograph survey and analysis. (Unpublished document). SDO12459.

Object Number MD002384

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1306241 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 22 2025 4:43PM