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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Badbury Barrow Alternative Name: Shapwick 6a; Straw Barrow - queryCountry: England County: Dorset Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Wimborne Nearest Village: Shapwick
Map Ref: ST958029
Latitude: 50.825623N Longitude: 2.060998W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Barrow Cemetery in Dorset
This barrow is included in The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) website, see their page Bardbury Barrow, Shapwick, Dorest. Sited near Badbury Rings, TNA describe this as "of at least 26 prehistoric barrows or tumuli in close proximity on the grasslands immediately west of the Badbury hillfort, this ..... was the most intriguing of the bunch ..... it was found to possess a very rare carved stone near its centre, and had the elements of the dead laid out in a quite fascinating manner." The TNA page gives more information on the archaeology and history of this barrow.
Details can also be found on Pastscape Monument No. 209549, which says: "The 'Badbury Barrow', which yielded remarkable finds when destroyed in 1845, was situated near Badbury Rings. Under the barrow mound, which was some 60 feet in diameter and 9 feet high, a central cairn of sandstone blocks was enclosed in a ring of flints bordered by a circular sandstone wall 30 feet in diameter, Within the cairn were at least three inhumations, apparently primary, two of them with food-vessels and one with an ornamental handled pot. Also probably in the cairn were at least fifteen cremations, a few perhaps primary, but most of them secondary, some with collared urns. At the centre, a huge slab of sandstone weighing half a ton was decorated with cup marks and carvings of daggers and axes similar to those at Stonehenge."
For more details of the carved stone, see the TNA page Badbury Barrow Carving, Shapwick, Dorest. The stone is now exhibited in the British Museum.
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