Flower's Barrow

DTM- (Digital Terrain Model, i.e. No buildings or foliage) Overlooking Worbarrow Beach & Bay lie the remains of the coastal contour hillfort, Flower’s Barrow. Coastal erosion has now degraded the once inland site to over 50% or its original size. First recorded in 1665 in Aubrey’s Monumenta Britannica. First excavation in 1939 within a pit on-site found slingstones, bone refuse and Iron Age pottery. Later chance find of a silver Durotrigian stater (coin minted circa 200 BC- 0 AD) Apparently in the early 19th century a skeleton of ‘abnormal length’ was found just beneath the surface of the inner rampart (details & skeleton now lost). Site now on Heritage at Risk Register. (Scheduled Monument) Iron Age tribal association (conjecture based on location): Durotriges [Any descriptive text is attributed to the Atlas of Hillforts & Wikipedia websites and any associated archaeological descriptions online which will be credited accordingly.]