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<< Text Pages >> Putney Heath - Round Barrow(s) in England in Greater London

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Putney Heath
Country: England County: Greater London Type: Round Barrow(s)

Map Ref: TQ22797295
Latitude: 51.442242N  Longitude: 0.234629W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5

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Possible Round Barrow in Greater London

Possible round barrow identified by O.G.S. Crawford and W.J. Hemp in 1937. The earthwork survives as a low flat-topped platform, circular in outline and 30-35 metres in diameter. It stands to a height of 0.6 metres above ground level where best preserved on the south and it has been truncated here by a shallow arcing ditch, 0.2 metres deep that extends for a distance of at least 60 metres on an east to west alignment.

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Re: Putney Heath by Anonymous on Tuesday, 03 January 2023
Thorne in Environs of London refers to Putney Heath tumuli having been flattened but he doesn't reference any archaeological evidence, unlike other quotes from Archaeologia.
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Re: Putney Heath by Anonymous on Tuesday, 29 September 2020
I've been back for a better look today, and discovered a further grassy hill closer to the A3. This hill may have an eroded mound at the summit. I believe this is the hill sometimes identified as 'Jerry's Hill', where allegedly Jerry Abershawe's body was displayed on a Gibbet in 1795. As it is about 50m away from the current dual carriageway, I find that story unlikely. Either way, this grassy knoll is certainly a candidate for being a tumulus on the top of a prominent rise.
There are two larger and smaller hills I visited yesterday, some few hundred metres further into the common, and sometimes identified as spoil heaps. I no longer believe this to be true. I suspect that demolition spoil has been placed on the paths at some point to prevent erosion and to keep them passable in winter. Many paths in this part of the common have been so treated. The smaller of these two hills is my second candidate for being a tumulus.
In reality, Wimbledon Common has been so heavily used in different ways over hundreds of years that the identification of any such relics is difficult to impossible. Sadly.
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Re: Putney Heath by Anonymous on Monday, 28 September 2020
I went looking for this Tumulus today. I did find two 'hills' which appears to rest on a natural slope that runs down to the A3. For both, looking down at the path clearly revealed they were made of spoil - bricks, broken ceramic pipes. I also saw the remains of cast iron drain pipes, girders, and steel from reinforced concrete. They were about 2-300m away from the A3. If they were debris from its expansion, why they paid to carry hardcore debris such a distance away from the site is a mystery. Unless it was an attempt at landscaping and part of a deal with the Common to release ground for the road expansion.
I couldn't find anything that looked like a Tumulus. It might be under the debris of the smaller hill, which was probably the highest point on the rise, and the kind of viewpoint that seemed to be sought after for Tumulus building. Or it might be somewhere else. Or so eroded or overgrown with trees that it can no longer be identified.
There also seem to be several ridges along the slope of the hill running down to the A3. Whether they are continuations of the spoil heap, natural, or something else, requires a better trained eye than mine.
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Re: Putney Heath by Andy B on Tuesday, 28 May 2013
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I'm pretty sure it's not a spoil heap, see here
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1455324

I will go and have a look but it's not the best time of year with all the vegetation.
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    Re: Putney Heath by golux on Tuesday, 28 May 2013
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    Andy
    The photo you linked to is supposedly of Jerry's Hill. "At least, I think this abrupt knoll ... is Jerry's Hill" says the poster. According to the OS map, Jerry's Hill lies between the tumulus and the A3.
    The tumulus is shown at TQ 2279 7295, the position cited on this page, on the current OS map and on the OS maps of 1976 and 1955, so it can't be a spoil heap created in the 60's unless it was heaped upon the pre-existing mound. As you say, the vegetation which covers all of this area on the south side of the A308 save for a few wide paths, will make identification near-impossible.
    Q: How do you tell the difference between an ancient mound, a 50 year old mound, and a 50 year old mound on top of an ancient mound?
    A: Err . . .
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      Re: Putney Heath by Andy B on Tuesday, 28 May 2013
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      You're right, I found the 1:25000 map on Geograph, Jerry's Hill and the tumulus are two different things:
      http://www.geograph.org.uk/showmap.php?gridref=TQ228730

      The OpenStreetMap map (zoom in from the Portal nearby sites map) shows 'Big Alp' and 'Little Alp' hills, surely someone's just made those up? The tumulus is shown right by the path so should be identifiable.

      Q: How do you tell the difference between an ancient mound, a 50 year old mound, and a 50 year old mound on top of an ancient mound?
      A: (possible) For barrows, look for traces of a ditch around the mound, and possibly a berm as well.
      http://www.dot-domesday.me.uk/w_stoke_sat.htm
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        Re: Putney Heath by golux on Wednesday, 29 May 2013
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        Looking at the OS map above, I notice the Portal's marker is a little NW of the OS marker. When I look at this on the Google satellite view, the Portal's marker falls just within the trees but the OS marker falls closer to the main N-S path, near the junction where a side path branches off to the Portal's position (around TQ 2282 7293). Only a site visit will settle this; if you get the chance then maybe you can solve the puzzle.

        Alps? Well I could conjecture that they were shaped to resemble alps when this former common land was landscaped to make a skating pond. Or am I just remembering the plot of "Skating Bikini Girls In Dinosaur Hell"?
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Re: Putney Heath by Anonymous on Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Re tumulus on wimbledon common. It appears yhat map reference is referencing a spoil hill that was created by roadworks widening the A3 in the sixties.
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