Monument record MDO1152 - Round barrow, Long Bottom, Frampton

Site of a possible ploughed out Bronze Age barrow visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It is one ofa group of five possible barrows located in this vicinity (MDO1150-54). {1-2}

On the spur of the E. side of West Hill Bottom, mound, possibly the remains of a barrow, 21ft. in diam and 2ft. high. {3}

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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

Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 10-APR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 31-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<1> 1972, DCC 212/0035 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11171.

<2> Royal Air Force, 09-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 4239-41 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11169.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 116 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(13) BARROW AND MOUNDS, on a spur on the E. side of West Hill Bottom and 1¾ m. S.W. of the church. ... (c), mound, possibly a barrow, 19 yards S.S.E. of (b), is 21 ft. in diam. and 2 ft. high.'

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