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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Holdenhurst Long BarrowCountry: England County: Dorset Type: Long Barrow
Nearest Town: Bournemouth Nearest Village: Holdenhurst
Map Ref: SZ116946
Latitude: 50.750887N Longitude: 1.836935W
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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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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