Details

The monument includes a small bowl barrow situated in private gardens and set
on a hill-top 70m north of Oliver Cromwell's Battery. The barrow mound
survives as a low grass-covered earthwork measuring 10m across from east-west
and 11m from north-south. The barrow stands to a height of 0.7m and is
surrounded by a ditch c.3m wide which survives as a buried feature. The
monument was partially excavated in 1930, producing a burial in a small chalk
cist.

MAP EXTRACT
The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.
It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features,
considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.

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Reasons for Scheduling

Bowl barrows, the most numerous form of round barrow, are funerary monuments
dating from the Late Neolithic period to the Late Bronze Age, with most
examples belonging to the period 2400-1500 BC. They were constructed as
earthen or rubble mounds, sometimes ditched, which covered single or multiple
burials. They occur either in isolation or grouped as cemeteries and often
acted as a focus for burials in later periods. Often superficially similar,
although differing widely in size, they exhibit regional variations in form
and a diversity of burial practices. There are over 10,000 surviving bowl
barrows recorded nationally (many more have already been destroyed), occurring
across most of lowland Britain. Often occupying prominent locations, they are
a major historic element in the modern landscape and their considerable
variation of form and longevity as a monument type provide important
information on the diversity of beliefs and social organisations amongst early
prehistoric communities. They are particularly representative of their period
and a substantial proportion of surviving examples are considered worthy of
protection.

Despite partial excavation of the barrow mound, much of the monument remains
intact and therefore has considerable archaeological potential.

Source: Historic England

Sources

Books and journals
Andrew, W J, 'Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club' in Report on the first excavations at Oliver's Battery in 1930, , Vol. 12, (1932), 5-10

Source: Historic England