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<< Our Photo Pages >> Nine Barrow Down - Barrow Cemetery in England in Dorset

Submitted by TimPrevett on Thursday, 05 February 2004  Page Views: 20102

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Nine Barrow Down
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.4 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Dorset Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Swanage  Nearest Village: Harmans Cross
Map Ref: SY995816  Landranger Map Number: 195
Latitude: 50.634095N  Longitude: 2.008431W
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
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 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.
4 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
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Nine Barrow Down
Nine Barrow Down submitted by TimPrevett : The largest round barrow of Nine Barrow Down. Huge. Izzy, left, Teufel & Cassie centre, and Sharon, right, help give this a real sense of scale. On the Dorset Megalithic Meet August 2005. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A Linear Barrow Cemetery of round barrows and a long barrow on the Purbeck ridgeway in Dorset. The long barrow is harder to discern. The barrows are very impressive, and clearly visible for many miles around.

AccessIf visiting the Rempstone circle, take the path at the east end of the wood uphill, then once the trees clear cut back to the right (west) on the Purbeck Way footpath which runs along the top of the ridge. The barrows are immediately to the north of the Purbeck Way footpath.
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Nine Barrow Down submitted by ArchieRob : Pair of round / bell barrows, possibly aligned with the sunrise or overlooking the Isle of Wight (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nine Barrow Down submitted by dawntreader : This site is already well-document on the portal, but here's a rather different angle. I visited on April 25th, when by chance the whole region was covered in heavy mist. This is one of the smaller barrows. The others were invisible until I virtually stumbled over them! I also visited the Harp Stone and Rempstone Stone circle on this day, both of which were similarly mist-enshrouded. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nine Barrow Down submitted by ArchieRob : Round / bell barrow at Nine Barrow Down, taken midday at 16/07/22 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nine Barrow Down submitted by Bladup : Nine Barrow Down. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nine Barrow Down submitted by TimPrevett : The Megalithic Meet group atop one of the barrows at Nine Barrow Down. To the rear of the group (NE) is Poole Harbour - clearly showing the visibility of these barrows and the landscape they command.

Nine Barrow Down
Nine Barrow Down submitted by TimPrevett : Looking east along the group of barrows on Nine Barrow Down. On the Dorset Megalithic Meet August 2005.

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Re: Nine Barrows (Dorset) by Anonymous on Sunday, 23 May 2021
Derek! I could get more info on a rubbish pile I threw dirt on! I'm starting to think you've made the place up just to see how many students you can induce mental breakdowns in. Is there a yearly tally you need to beat? Does the Arch department take bets? I'm thinking 30.
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Collapsing Commodities or Lavish Offerings? Understanding large-scale deposition by Andy B on Friday, 06 November 2015
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Collapsing Commodities or Lavish Offerings? Understanding large-scale metalwork deposition at Langton Matravers, Dorset
Roberts, B.W., Boughton, D. Doshi, N., Fitzpatrick, A.F., Hook, D., Meeks, N., Woodward, A. and Woodward, P. 2015 Collapsing Commodities or Lavish Offerings? Understanding large-scale metalwork deposition at Langton Matravers, Dorset. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 34 (4) 365–395

The discovery of 373 intact and broken tin-bronze socketed axes accompanied by 404 fragments in four pits at Langton Matravers collectively represents one of the largest hoards found to date in prehistoric Britain and Ireland. They were very probably never meant to be used as axes as they contain very high levels of tin. Many were poorly finished with the majority still containing their casting cores.

The axes are typologically dated to the Llyn Fawr metalwork phase (c. 800-600 BC) and span the Bronze Age/Iron Age transition, when the production, circulation and deposition of bronze appears to have been substantially reduced throughout north-west Europe. By placing the Langton Matravers hoard(s) in a broader metallurgical, material and archaeological context, existing theories for this phenomenon, such as the preference for iron, a collapse in bronze supply, or the sharp devaluation of a social or ritual ‘bronze standard’ are evaluated. It is proposed that the Langton Matravers axes belong to a short phase in the centuries-long processes underlying the changing roles of bronze and iron.

https://www.academia.edu/7567910/
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Re: Nine Barrows (Dorset) by Anonymous on Saturday, 29 June 2013
Visited the Nine Barrows? on 17 June 2013 while walking the Purbeck Way. It was quite clear that they are not nine barrows. To my surprise later research showed that they are in fact, one Neolithic barrow (the long one nearest the path) and eight Bronze age burial mounds (Tumuli).
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Re: Nine Barrows (Dorset) by Anonymous on Monday, 28 February 2005
The landscape falls away from the barrows in a semi-exposed location, which overseas both Poole Harbour and the Isle of Purbeck, with a panoramic vista, which is broken only by the the linear Ridgeway that the barrows are located atop.

The location is unmisasable from the landscape and as such, is the dominant feature upon the ridgeway that your eye is drawn towards, when situated within the eastern portion of Purbeck.

The barrows are interlocked in a interlacing weave of earthworks, which may infer upon social relations enacted upon and within the site as objective observers and subjects of experience.

It is both enigmatic and daughnting, to stand within, as a complex, but heart shattering to see the mountain bike track scars, for the sake of the willies.

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