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BRIMSDOWN HILL
BRONZE AGE BOWL BARROW -2600 to -700
UNCERTAIN MOUND
ST 82073917. A bowl barrow situated 750 metres north east of Newmead Cottages. The barrow, which lies on a south facing slope immediately below the crest of Brimsdown Hill, includes a mound 12 metres in diameter and 0.6 metres high. This is surrounded by a ditch from which material for its construction would have been quarried. This has become infilled but survives as a buried feature 2 metres wide. Scheduled (1998).
A bowl barrow, 9 paces in diameter and a foot high, in long grass and apparently unopened. Found by AD Passmore and confirmed by Grinsell.
(Grinsell sites it to ST 82103919) (1-2)
When viewed from below the south side of the hill the mound has the appearance of a barrow but from the east and west it seems to be nothing more than slip. Very doubtful, and not surveyed. (3)
A low circular mound measuring 8.5m diameter and 0.3m high lies on a 'false crest'. Its regular form suggests that it is artificial, though it is much lower than nearby barrows and it has not been ploughed or otherwise mutilated. Identity uncertain.
25-01-14