Monument record MDO118 - Bowl barrow on Eggardon, Askerswell

A Bronze Age bowl barrow lying inside the Iron Age hillfort on Eggardon. In 1952 this monument was reported as being around 42 feet in diameter with a mound about 4½ feet high. The mound is damaged, having been excavated by George Rybot 1963-66. He found the remains of at least five Deverel-Rimbury urns and one collared urn; one of these contained cremated bone, and is presumably the remains of a cremation burial.

TUMULUS. Dug-Trench from. W. to E. (2)

A bowl barrow with a hollow in the centre. Diameter 14 paces, height 3ft. <2-4>

A grass covered bowl barrow; diameter 14.0m., height 1.5m., with unsurveyable traces of a surrounding ditch. The barrow has been dug into on top.

The barrow was sectioned in 1965 by G Rybot. A small flint cairn was capped by soil, probably to a height of 6-7 feet. No ditch was found. Three Kg of pottery from six newels were recovered showing the barrow to the Middle Bronze Age, and included the Westernmost known Tyre Iia globular Deverel-Rimbury urn. <5>

Grinsell recorded this barrow as 14 paces in diameter and 3 feet in height, with a hollow in the centre. <6>

Enclosed small flint cairn (disturbed) sherds of at least 5 Deverel-Rimbury urns and of one collared urn (possibly in soil gathered for mound which had no quarry ditch) at least one urn contained cremated bones. <7>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow lying inside Eggardon Hillfort. The barrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. <8>

Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 32 (Monograph). SWX1703.

‘Add: excav. G. Rybot, 1965: enclosed small flint cairn (disturbed). Sherds of at least 5 D/R urns and of one collared urn (possibly in soil gathered for mound which had no quarry ditch). At least one urn contained cremated bones. Barrow probably of D/R period. Wells, 1980.’

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

TUMULUS [OE]

<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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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), 13 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(12) EGGARDON … Within the enclosure are two large mounds, probably barrows, that marked "A" on plan having a diameter of 42 ft. and a height of about 2 ft.; while mound "B" has a diameter of about 42 ft. and a height of 4½ ft. Both have been considerably damaged.'

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 15-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 20-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<6> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 87 (Monograph). SDO132.

<7> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1980, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1978, 56-60 (Serial). SDO78.

<8> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 4153-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11409.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451401 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 25 2024 3:44PM