Monument record MDO1265 - Round barrow near Gorwell Farm, Kingston Russell

Bowl barrow, diameter 13 paces, height 1ft. <2>

A mound, possibly the remains of a barrow. <3>

A grass covered, ditchless, but very spread bowl barrow. Diameter 16.0m, height 0.3m. <4>

SY 5778790. Kingston Russell 15.. Bowl barrow listed, details as Authy 2. <5>

Bowl barrow with a mound 15m in diameter up to 0.5m in height and composed of eart and chalk. Surrounded by a ditch from which material was quarried during construction of the mound. Ditch is no longer visible but will survive as a buried feature circa 2m wide. The barrow was first recorded in 1959 and is situated 75m to the north west of the Kingston Russell stone circle, with which it is intervisible. <7>

Not a barrow but probably a Late Bronze Age cremation cemetery. The cremations were covered by platforms of flints similar to those in pond-barrows.

The probable site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs and was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project. <8>

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

(SY 57768789) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, Dorset Barrows (Unpublished MSs) (Unpublished document). SWX2678.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 127 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(5) MOUND and BARROW on Tenants Hill; the first, possibly the remains of a barrow, is 75 yards N.W. of (4) and is 50 ft. in diam. and ¾ ft. high. The bowl barrow, 600 yards further to the W.N.W., is 52 ft. in diam. and 6 ft high; it has been disturbed in the middle.’

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 07-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 116 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 36 (Index). SDO12304.

This possible barrow has been reduced and spread by ploughing, 18.0m diameter, 0.2m high. In a regularly ploughed field of ley pasture and hence the mound has been reduced to a faint swelling. Unscheduled. 7/6/E

<7> English Heritage, Scheduled Monument Notification, 28-july-1995 (Scheduling record). SDO17381.

<8> 2002, DCC SY5787 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11646.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450273 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 15 2024 4:55PM