Monument record MDO1154 - Round barrow, Long Bottom, Frampton

`A' - A truncated bowl barrow. Diameter 15.0 paces, height 1.5ft. <2>

`A'. - A grass covered bowl barrow, diameter 13.0m, height 0.6m. The top of the barrow has been dug away and levelled. There is no visible ditch. <4>

`A'. SY 60889295. Bowl barrow generally as described by Authy 3: dug into but probably not ploughed. `A' re-surveyed, and `B' and `C', surveyed; at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

Site of a ploughed out Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It is one ofa group of five possible barrows located in this vicinity (MDO1150-54). <7-8>

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

`A' (SY 60889296) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<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. (a), a barrow, is about 40 ft. in diam. and 2½ ft. high, it has been much disturbed; (b), mound, possibly the remains of a barrow, 75 yards E. of (a), is oval, 45 ft. by 26 ft. and 4 ft. high; (c), mound, possibly a barrow, 19 yards S.S.E. of (b), is 21 ft. in diam. and 2 ft. high.'

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 31-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 10-APR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1989, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1988, 143 (Serial). SDO88.

<7> 1972, DCC 212/0035 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11171.

<8> 10-JAN-2007, NMR SY 6093/11-13 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11170.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453677 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 31 2023 3:59PM