206900

BRIMSDOWN HILL

MONUMENT NO. 206900

BRONZE AGE BOWL BARROW -2600 to -700

BRONZE AGE CIST -2600 to -700

BRONZE AGE CREMATION -2600 to -700

ST 81633917) Tumulus. Bronze Age bowl barrow 650 metres south east of Baycliffe Farm. The barrow, which lies on a narrow ridge forming the western end of Brimsdown Hill, includes a slightly oval mound approximately 22 metres (east-west) by 18 metres and 2.5 metres high. A 3 metre wide ditch, from which material to construct the mound would have been quarried, is visible on the eastern (upslope) side of the mound only. Elsewhere around the mound it has been infilled and will survive as a buried feature. The barrow was partially excavated by Sir Richard Colt Hoare in May 1807 when a cist containing a cremation burial, a bone pin and a small bronze dagger were found. Scheduled.

A bowl barrow, 25 paces in diameter and 8 feet high. Excavated by Colt Hoare, May 1807, finding a cist containing a primary cremation with a bone pin and a small bronze dagger, now in Devizes Museum. (2-3)

26-01-14