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RODMEAD HILL
BRONZE AGE SAUCER BARROW -2600 to -700
EARLY MEDIEVAL EXTENDED INHUMATION 601 to 732
ST 8197435992. Bronze Age saucer barrow situated to the southeast of Rodmead Farm. The barrow is one of two saucer barrows on Rodmead Hill and survives as an earthwork 10 metres in diameter and 0.3 metres high, surrounded by a shallow ditch 1.8 metres wide and an outer bank 2.7 metres wide. Excavations by Sir Richard Colt Hoare in 1807 revealed a Saxon extended inhumation, with its head to the northeast, accompanied by a bowl, buckle, clasp, bucket, shield boss, sword, knives and spearheads. The grave goods indicate a seventh century of early eighth century date for burial.
(NB. Details of barrow B which were originally recorded as part of this record are not recorded separately, please see HOB UID 1416879 for details)
(Barrow 'A' ST 81973599) Tumuli (GT) (Two) (1)
One of two saucer barrows on Rodmead Hill:
('A') the northernmost has a mound, 34 feet in diameter and a foot high, a ditch 6 feet wide and 6 inches deep and a bank 9 feet wide and 9 inches high. It was excavated by Colt Hoare, October 1807, who found a pagan Saxon extended skeleton, head NE, accompanied by a bronze bowl, a brass-bound wooden bucket, an iron umbo, bronze buckle and clasp, iron sword, two iron knives and two spearheads. The finds are in Devizes Museum.
(2-4)
Barrow 'A' has the appearance of a small bowl barrow with a ditch and outer bank rather than a saucer barrow.
Published survey (1:2500) revised. (5)
The field is now under plough, and the barrow is extensively damaged.
Barrow 'A' Central chalk and flint mound measures 11.5m diameter and 0.2m high. Ditch comprises a brown earth crop mark, 2.5m wide, and the outer bank comprises a chalk crop mark, 2.0m wide, both being ploughed out.
Well defined soil-marks on OS air photographs (a).
1:2500 survey revised. (6)
The most northerly barrow has a mound 10 metres in diameter and 0.3 metres high. The ditch is 1.8 metres wide and and outer bank 2.7 metres wide. Excavations by Colt Hoare in 1807 located a Saxon extended inhumation with its head to the northeast, accompanied by a bowl, buckle, clasp, bucket, shield boss, sword, knives and spearheads. (7) Additional references (8-9)
[Related: 1461879]
26-01-14