Monument record MDO1155 - Bowl barrow, Frampton

'B' An oval barrow (listed under bowl barrows). Diameter 20 x 15 paces, height 4 1/2 ft. About 50 yds to the NE is an earthwork, 'A', which is probably not a barrow. <3> <6>

'B' A grass covered mound, elongated in a NE-SW direction and measuring 18.0 m x 11.0 m with a height of 1.5 m. There is no visible ditch, but the mound appears to be a spread bowl barrow. <4>

'B' is stepped down in the NE. There is no indication that it has ever had any other than its present odd shape. As its foot in the NE is a large pond from which it may be part of the upcast - a doubtful barrow. <5>

SY 614928-615925 "Three round barrows near Town Hill Barn. Scheduled No 316". <8>

'B'. SY 61449272. The remains of a probable barrow, now reduced to about one-quarter of its original size by 'bulldozing'. The remains form a rectangle 10.0 by 7.0 metres and 1.2 metres high, rounded at the north-east end. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <9>

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

('A' - SY 61479278 'B' - SY 61439272) Tumuli (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.

'(14) BARROWS, on Town Hill, nearly 1¾ m. S.S.W. of the church, are two in number. The northern, 70 yards S.W. of Town Hill Barn, of doubtful origin but perhaps the remains of a barrow, is of irregular form 60 ft. long, 24 ft. wide and 3 ft. high. The southern, 300 yards S. of Town Hill Barn, is a bowl barrow 50 ft. in diam. and 5¼ 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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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 Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 03-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F2 JR 24-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

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

<7> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 61439272; SY 61509247) Tumulus (NR) (twice)

<8> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 63 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<9> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F3 JGB 10-APR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453655 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 9 2023 7:07AM