HER 1856 - Bowl Barrow

Scheduled Monument
Bowl barrow south of Longcross. A ditched bowl barrow, 38.0m in overall diameter by 1.4m in height, planted with large conifers. No other mounds seen nearby. Tree covered and burrowed barrow measuring 28 metres in diameter and 2.0 metres in height. It is enclosed by a ditch 2.7 metres wide and 0.7 metres deep externally. Copsey in 1964 claimed it has an outer bank 3 metres wide by 0.15 metres deep. Following on from the successful Area of Special Historic Landscape Value assessment at Chobham, a note was published on the Longcross Barrow (located by GPS at SU 9912 6466), surveyed by team members in March 2002. It was during this survey that the remains of a small excavation trench, about 6m by 1m, was identified on the north side of the barrow, cutting across the ditch and part of the mound. There appears to be no record of this excavation, but its north-south alignment, and apparent metric layout, seems to suggest it was not an unrecorded antiquarian foray, but a cutting of more recent date. In 1963, one H W Copsey visited the site, and noted the remains of “a recent small excavation”. This excavation was not noted by Grinsell (1934, 1987) in his visits in the 1930s and 1980s, nor by Fred Aldsworth during his visit as an Ordnance Survey archaeologist in August 1966 (SOC SMA card no 1856). Based on Copsey’s account, it would seem this trench was dug shortly before 1963, by people with some prior knowledge of systematic excavation techniques.

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• SHHER_1861
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