Monument record MDO1146 - Bowl barrow on Notton Down, Frampton

Barrow has ben much damaged. It would appear to have been 42ft. in diam and 4.5ft. high. <2>

A bowl barrow. Diameter 14 paces, height 4.5ft. <3>

A very mutilated grass covered bowl barrow with no visible ditch. Earth has been dug from the south-east and north-west sides to make a bank across the barrow, which is also the parish boundary, and a small ditch parallels the bank on the north-west side. The approximate diameter of the mound is 15.0 metres, and its height 1.5m. <4>

Tumulus re-surveyed on field document at SY 61409494. <5>

A scrub covered bowl barrow, entirely dug away on its south-east side leaving it with a diameter of 12.6 metres north-east to south-west and 7.4 metres, transversely. It has an average height of 1.5 metres.
Revised at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <7>

Site of a probable Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as a cropmarked ring ditch on aerial photographs. <8-9>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 61409496) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 116 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(11) BARROW, on the W. edge of the parish over ¾ m. W. of the church, has been much damaged. It would appear to have been about 42 ft. in diam. and 4½ ft. high.'

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 21-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Large Scale/Small Scale Map Reviser's comments, LS Rev (R Barnes 9.9.58) (Verbal communication). SDO19451.

<6> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 109 (Monograph). SDO132.

<7> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 26-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<8> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 4137-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11189.

<9> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3270-72 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11188.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453579 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 22 2023 5:01PM