Monument record MDO6091 - Bowl barrow in Barrow Coppice, Sixpenny Handley

A bowl barrow excavated by Pitt-Rivers, who found a cremation near the centre. In 1975 the barrow was described as being a mound around 46 feet in diameter and 5 feet high, surrounded by a substantial ditch.

Bowl barrow 46ft in diameter by 5ft high, surrounded by a substantial ditch. It was excavated by Pitt-Rivers, who found a cremation, probably primary, near the centre. <4>

ST 96861793. A bowl barrow in Barrow Coppice. The barrow mound is composed of earth, flint and chalk and measures up to 15 metres in diameter and 1 metre high. Scheduled. <5>

<1> Pitt Rivers, A H L F, 1888, Excavations in Cranborne Chase. Volume 2: Excavations in Barrows Near Rushmore Excavations in Romano-British Village, Rotherley/ Excavations in Winkelbury Camp/ Excavations in British Barrows and Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, Winkelbury Hill, 3, 12-13, 44-5 (Monograph). SDO17282.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 113 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 96861793) Tumulus (NR)

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 72 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘Twenty-seven round barrows, several damaged or levelled by ploughing, have been recorded in the parish. Many have been excavated, most of them by General Pitt-Rivers, but very few completely. Pitt-Rivers reconstituted the barrows which he dug. … (42) Bowl (96871793), in Barrow Coppice, E. of Woodcutts Common, was excavated by Pitt-Rivers, who found a cremation, probably primary, near the centre (Excavations II (1888), 3). The mound, 46 ft. in diameter and 5 ft. high, is surrounded by a substantial ditch.’

<5> English Heritage, Scheduling Amendment, 18-SEP-2001 (Scheduling record). SDO17245.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209786 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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