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<< Our Photo Pages >> Clandon Barrow - Round Barrow(s) in England in Dorset

Submitted by AngieLake on Tuesday, 08 November 2011  Page Views: 6617

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Clandon Barrow
Country: England County: Dorset Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Dorchester
Map Ref: SY65638900
Latitude: 50.699619N  Longitude: 2.488028W
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
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5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
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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
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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
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Clandon Barrow submitted by AngieLake : The Clandon Barrow gold lozenge, similar to the one found at Bush Barrow near Stonehenge. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Round Barrow in Dorset. This barrow produced some very interesting finds, including a shale macehead with gold bosses, and a gold lozenge with a similar pattern to the famous one found in Bush Barrow.

I read about it in an old book 'Wessex' by J.F.S. Stone, (Thames and Hudson, 1963) and this is what Stone says [talking about gold in the chapter 'Heroes and Traders']:

"Extensive use was made of the metal mainly in the form of decorated thin sheets for attachment to wood, leather or conical shale buttons, and also for beads and pendants. Two of the finest gold plates came from Bush Barrow and from Clandon Barrow in Dorset, the former also with a magnificent gold-plated belt-hook of Central European type."

Another find:

"...two of the finest objects found in the Wessex Culture are handled cups carved from single pieces of amber. One perfect specimen of red amber, which can only hold nearly half a pint, was found in a barrow at Hove with a battle-axe, of pronounced double-axe profile, and a bronze dagger; the other, now fragmentary, came from the famous Clandon Barrow in Dorset. Closely related cups of local shale are also known from Wiltshire and Farway Down, Devon."

The macehead:

"To a similar native origin we must also ascribe the ceremonial sceptres or maces of authority. The Bush Barrow mace, of attractive fossiliferous limestone probably from the Teignmouth* district, with its zigzag bone inlays is a famous example and with it should be included the even more ornate gold-studded shale specimen from the Clandon Barrow near Dorchester found with an amber cup, a lozenge-shaped gold plate and a bronze dagger.

*[I was staggered to hear that the Bush Barrow mace may have originated a few miles down the road from where I live!]


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Clandon Barrow
Clandon Barrow submitted by AngieLake : Another shot of Clandon barrow, showing how much room there is to park and turn. (Private houses on the right of this view.) (Vote or comment on this photo)

Clandon Barrow
Clandon Barrow submitted by AngieLake : A zoomed-in shot of this famous barrow that once held a gold lozenge like the one at Bush Barrow near Stonehenge. 7 May 2015. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Clandon Barrow
Clandon Barrow submitted by AngieLake : Clandon Barrow sits on the hill directly above a housing estate, which appears to be 'Allington' on the Streetmap on site page. (Shortly after leaving the east end of Martinstown, heading NE to Dorchester, take the right fork, then the first right to this cul-de-sac.) (Vote or comment on this photo)

Clandon Barrow
Clandon Barrow submitted by AngieLake : The very striking-looking shale- embossed-with-gold mace head found in Clandon Barrow near Dorchester. These photos taken from 1963 copy of J.F.S. Stone's 'Wessex' [Thames & Hudson]. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Clandon Barrow by coldrum on Monday, 05 December 2011
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From Pastscape:

"Clandon Barrow, of bowl type (SY 65648900) - in prominent position
above 300 ft. contour on flat ground at W. end of local ridge.
Diam. 90 ft., ht. 18 ft. Markedly conical in profile. Cunnington
partly excavated the mound in 1882 without reaching primary burial,
and bottom of his pit being probably 9 ft. above original ground
surface. About 6 ft. from the top was flint cairn about 1 ft. thick
and 8 ft. in diam. Below it, sherds of an incense cup were scattered
on a layer of white clay; among the flints were fragments of an
amber cup; and on the flints were a grooved copper dagger with
traces of a wooden sheath and an attached small bronze ring, a
quadrangular gold plate and a shale mace-head with five gold-capped
bosses. 1 ft. higher was a cremation in a crushed, typologically
early, collared urn on a thin layer of ashes and small flints.
4 ft. higher and 2 ft. from the top of the mound two stone-lined
graves, possibly Romano-British, lay E.-W. 4 ft. apart, each with
an inhumation on a layer of fine sand. The mound largely consisted
of layers of sands, clays and gravels.
Finds in Dorset County Museum.

SY 65638900. Clandon Barrow, (name not confirmed), lies in arable.
It is very steep sided, and although not ploughed over it has been
damaged by ploughing at the edges. Diameter 30.0m, height 5.5m,
with a flat top of 5.0m diameter: there is no visible ditch.



Clandon Barrow, Winterbourne St Martin 31. Of the finds from the
excavation (Authy 2 and 3) some of which comprise a 'Wessex' I
grave group, the macehead is of jet, the grooved bronze dagger is
Gerloff's Amorico-British B (Cressingham type), the collared urn
is Primary Series and the 'incense-cup' is a bipartite accessory
vessel.


The assemblage of material from the barrow is reinterpretted in the wider Atlantic and European context. The assemblage possibly represents a much deeper religious significance for the site than had hitherto been recognised."

http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=451916

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