Monument record MDO1266 - Bowl barrow, Kingston Russell

"Large, prominent, opened, flints". <2>

Bowl barrow, diameter 18 paces, height 5ft <3>

Disturbed in the middle. <4>

A grass covered ditchless bowl barrow, dug into on top. Diameter 20.0m and height 1.8m. <5>

The site of a large bowl barrow on Tenant's Hill is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. It was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project. <9>

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

(SY 57358810) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Crawford, O G S, Annotated record map 6 inch (Map). SWX7265.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 127 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(5) Bowl barrow, 52ft. in diam and 6ft. high, it has been disturbed in the middle.'

<5> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 07-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<6> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 116 (Monograph). SDO132.

<7> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 34 (Index). SDO12304.

Dimensions much as RCHM. The mound is covered in tuft grass and thistle clumps. There is slight damage from basal ploughing. The surrounding field is under cultivation. Scheduled. 1/4/C

<8> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<9> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3304-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11644.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450270 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 11 2023 2:50PM