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Bowl barrow 250m north-east of Hardley Bridge

A Scheduled Monument in Hythe and Dibden, Hampshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.8427 / 50°50'33"N

Longitude: -1.4022 / 1°24'8"W

OS Eastings: 442182.13399

OS Northings: 104968.714113

OS Grid: SU421049

Mapcode National: GBR 88N.0BC

Mapcode Global: FRA 76YW.3HM

Entry Name: Bowl barrow 250m north-east of Hardley Bridge

Scheduled Date: 11 March 1964

Last Amended: 10 December 1992

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1013119

English Heritage Legacy ID: 20269

County: Hampshire

Civil Parish: Hythe and Dibden

Built-Up Area: Hythe

Traditional County: Hampshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hampshire

Details

This monument includes a bowl barrow overlooking Flash Pond. The barrow mound
measures 9m in diameter and stands up to 1.3m high. A ditch, from which
material was quarried during the construction of the monument, surrounds the
barrow mound. This has become partly infilled over the years but survives as
a slight earthwork 1.2m wide and 0.25m deep. There is a slight bank on the
south-western external edge of the ditch.

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

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.

The bowl barrow 250m north-east of Hardley Bridge survives comparatively well
within the New Forest, an area known to have been important in terms of
lowland Bronze Age occupation. A considerable amount of archaeological
evidence has survived in this area because of a lack of agricultural activity,
the result of later climatic deterioration, development of heath and the
establishment of a Royal Forest.

Source: Historic England

Sources

Books and journals
Grinsell, L V, 'Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club' in Hampshire Barrows, , Vol. 14, (1938), 361
Other
Darvill, T C, Monument Class Descriptions - Bowl Barrows (1988), 1988,

Source: Historic England

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