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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Millpond Wood Barrow Alternative Name: Wilderness BarrowCountry: England County: Kent Type: Round Barrow(s)
Map Ref: TQ53815661
Latitude: 51.287861N Longitude: 0.204320E
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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Jonik visited on 30th Dec 2014 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Situated in a small, protected patch of old, mixed woodland. I found the site quiet and atmospheric on this December afternoon despite the nearby housing. There are no signs to say what the site is.
From Exploring Kent's Past:
"Tumulus excavated by Lewis Abbott who found traces of cremation and "thousands" of burnt flints, including pygmies, which are in the British and Canterbury Museums. The tumulus was 80-90ft in diameter, 5.5ft high, and planted with firs. Lewis Abbott mentions "two other barrows in the neighbourhood not yet explored."
The published feature is a flat-topped sub-circular mound measuring some 33.0m in diameter E-W, 28.0m in diameter N-S and 1.5m in height on a prominent E-W sandy ridge. It has no trace of a ditch. This is presumably the mound excavated by Lewis Abbott but the other two "in the neighbourhood" were not traced. Points and microliths of Horsham type still occur in the sandy surface of the mound and similar implements with cores and flakes were found in recent years when trees were grubbed up to make gardens for the council houses on the S. side of the site: these latter are now in Sevenoaks Public Library and Museum.
Ninety-eight Mesolithic artefacts from Wilderness Barrow opened by W J L Abbot are in the British Museum; Tunbridge Wells Museum holds another 125 artefacts according to R M Jacobi.
The monument includes a bowl barrow situated on the crest of a prominent sandy ridge. The barrow has an oval mound 33m east-west by 28m north-south and is 1.8m high. Surrounding this is a ditch from which material was quarried during the construction of the monument. Although no longer visible at ground level, having become infilled over the years, the ditch survives as a buried feature c.3m wide. The barrow was partially excavated in the 1890s when traces of a cremation burial were discovered beneath the mound. Hundreds of pieces of worked flint and tools dating to the Mesolithic period were also discovered in the make-up of the mound and surrounding area, showing that the barrow was constructed on a much earlier flint-working site. Excluded from the scheduling are all fences and fence posts although the ground beneath them is included."
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