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<< Our Photo Pages >> Holdenhurst Long Barrow - Long Barrow in England in Dorset

Submitted by JimChampion on Friday, 29 April 2005  Page Views: 9349

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Holdenhurst Long Barrow
Country: England County: Dorset Type: Long Barrow
Nearest Town: Bournemouth  Nearest Village: Holdenhurst
Map Ref: SZ116946
Latitude: 50.750887N  Longitude: 1.836935W
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
Destroyed 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.
no data 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
3

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Holdenhurst Long Barrow
Holdenhurst Long Barrow submitted by JimChampion : January 1936. The first known deliberate use of a mechanical excavator to assist archaeological trench digging. The person in the picture is George Willmot, and the photo is believed to have been taken by Stuart Piggott who led the rescue work at the site. This photo is reproduced by the kind permission of David Allen, Senior Keeper of Archaeology with the Hampshire Museums service. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Destroyed earthen long barrow in Dorset

Originally 90m long and oriented NW-SE, this long barrow was destroyed during the construction of a housing estate in the 1930s. Fortunately it was the subject of a rescue excavation by Stuart Piggott in January 1936, uncovering Neolithic inhumations as well as Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery.

In order to speed up the trench-digging process Piggott used the mechanical excavators intended for the house construction work. This is the first known deliberate use of a machine to assist archaeological excavation - further details of this dig and a rare photograph are available here at the Prehistoric Society's website.

The location of the Holdenhurst barrow is somewhat anomalous. Earthen long barrows in the south of England are usually found on chalk downland: the nearest group is the Ridgeway and Coast group in West Dorset. The Holdenhurst long barrow, low in the Stour Valley, is a very distant outlier of this group.
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SZ1194 : Strouden: southern end of bridleway K35 by Chris Downer
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Re: Holdenhurst Long Barrow by TimPrevett on Sunday, 08 May 2005
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Would this have anything to do with Holdenhurst Rd in Bournemouth along which I walked / travelled many times in my junior days?

Excellent one, Jim.
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    Re: Holdenhurst Long Barrow by JimChampion on Sunday, 08 May 2005
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    Most likely. Its not far from where the CastlePoint shopping centre is nowadays.
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