Monument record MDO1157 - Bowl barrow at Hogleaze Farm, Frampton

A Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1950 this monument was reported as being around 70 feet in diameter with a mound about 3½ feet high. Visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs.

A bowl barrow. Diameter 22 paces, height 3ft. <2-3>

A grass covered bowl barrow 22.0m diameter and 1.5m high, with no visible ditch. <4>

SY 611920. Round barrow 350 yds (320m) E of Little Hogleaze Farm. <6>

SY 61119200. Bowl barrow, diameter 22.0m, height 1.0m, ploughed over. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <7>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. <8-9>

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

(SY 61129201) 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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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.

'(15) BOWL BARROW, near the S. border of the parish and 330 yards S.S.E. of Little Hogleaze Barn, is 70 ft. in diam. and 3½ ft. high.'

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 Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 31-DEC-54 (Unpublished document).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

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 109 (Monograph). SDO132.

<6> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 63 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<7> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 10-APR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<8> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053 020-21 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11165.

<9> 1997, DCC 31/0507 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11166.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453650 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 20 2023 4:15PM