Monument record MDO1211 - Bowl barrow, Godmanstone

A slightly irregular sub-circular mound approximately 16m in diameter is visible as an earthwork on Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature is considered likely to be a Bronze Age bowl barrow and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

(Listed under bowl barrow) Cairn. Diameter 12 paces, height 3.5ft. <2>

A bowl barrow largely composed of flints. Quarried on the west side. <3>

A bush and grass covered bowl barrow 10.0m diameter 1.3m high on the east. Mutilated on the top and in the west exposing large flints. No trace of a ditch. <4>

Best refers to the above bowl barrow and adds "I have always suspected that another, much robbed and eroded stands close to the `Driftway' (see SY 69 NE 44) about a furlong NNW of the first" (From the description, this second barrow would be situated at circa
SY 655976 - Nothing visible on RAF air photographs). <6>

SY 65609750. Bowl barrow description and measurements of authority 4 confirmed. There are no extant remains of a second barrow (see
Authority 5). Revised at 1-2500 on MSD. <7>

A slightly irregular sub-circular mound approximately 16m in diameter is visible as an earthwork on Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project. <9>

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

(SY 65609750) 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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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), 121 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(6) BOWL BARROW, 1,080 yards W. of the church, is about 27 ft. in diam. and 4½ ft. high; it is largely composed of flint and has been quarried on the W. side.'

<4> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 03-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 110 (Monograph). SDO132.

<6> 1968, Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries 28, 294 (Serial). SDO20431.

<7> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 26-JAN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452875 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<9> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Oct 22 2024 4:06PM