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Latitude: 50.6561 / 50°39'22"N
Longitude: -2.1061 / 2°6'22"W
OS Eastings: 392591.722994
OS Northings: 84055.108146
OS Grid: SY925840
Mapcode National: GBR 336.VPY
Mapcode Global: FRA 67GB.R9C
Entry Name: Bowl barrow on Creech Heath 720m ESE of Dodson's Farm, forming part of the Creech Heath round barrow cemetery
Scheduled Date: 31 May 1961
Last Amended: 22 March 1996
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1014140
English Heritage Legacy ID: 28317
County: Dorset
Civil Parish: Church Knowle
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Wareham Lady St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
The monument includes a bowl barrow situated on Creech Heath in the Isle of
Purbeck, overlooking the Purbeck Hills to the south. It is one of five round
barrows which together make up the Creech Heath round barrow cemetery.
The barrow has a mound composed of earth, sand and turf with a maximum
diameter of 22m and maximum height of c.1m. This is surrounded by a ditch from
which material was quarried during the construction of the monument. The ditch
has become infilled over the years, but will survive as a buried feature 2m
wide.
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.
Source: Historic England
Round barrow cemeteries date to the Bronze Age (c.2000-700 BC). They comprise
closely-spaced groups of up to 30 round barrows - rubble or earthen mounds
covering single or multiple burials. Most cemeteries developed over a
considerable period of time, often many centuries, and in some cases acted as
a focus for burials as late as the early medieval period. They exhibit
considerable diversity of burial rite, plan and form, frequently including
several different types of round barrow, occasionally associated with earlier
long barrows. Where large scale investigation has been undertaken around them,
contemporary or later "flat" burials between the barrow mounds have often been
revealed. Round barrow cemeteries occur across most of lowland Britain, with a
marked concentration in Wessex. In some cases, they are clustered around other
important contemporary monuments such as henges. Often occupying prominent
locations, they are a major historic element in the modern landscape, whilst
their diversity and their longevity as a monument type provide important
information on the variety of beliefs and social organisation amongst early
prehistoric communities. They are particularly representative of their period
and a substantial proportion of surviving or partly-surviving examples are
considered worthy of protection.
The bowl barrow on Creech Heath 720m ESE of Dodson's Farm survives well
and will contain archaeological and environmental evidence relating to the
cemetery and the landscape in which it was constructed.
Source: Historic England
Books and journals
Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset: Volume I, (1970), 442
Source: Historic England
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