Monument record MDO1268 - Bowl Barrow in the Black Down Group, Kingston Russell

A Bronze Age bowl barrow to the west of Black Down, one of a loose scatter of barrows and associated monuments. Ordnance Survey field investigation in 1954 recorded it as a flinty and stubble covered mound 15 metres in diameter and 0.4 metres high, with no visible surrounding ditch.

Two bowl barrows … B. Levelled. Ploughed out. <2>

B. A bowl barrow, flinty and stubble covered, with no visible ditch. Diameter 15.0m, height 0.4m. <4>

A bowl barrow, one of a loose scatter of barrows (see SY 59 SE 48 and associated monuments). Listed by RCHME as Kingston Russell 6b and by Grinsell as Kingston Russell 11, Ordnance Survey field investigation in 1954 recorded it as a flinty and stubble covered mound 15 metres in diameter and 0.4 metres high, with no visible surrounding ditch. <3-5>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs to the west of Black Down. <7-9>

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

[A-SY58209065 B-SY58189057] TUMULI [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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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), 128 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(6) Group of Barrows between the 500 and 600 ft. contours on or near the top of a ridge to the W. of Black Down and ¾ m. N.E. of Kingston Russell House. … (b) bowl barrow, 20 yards S. of (a), is 45 ft. in diam. and 4½ ft. high, with traces of a ditch.’

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 30-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 115 (Monograph). SDO132.

<6> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 882071 (Index). SDO14738.

RCHME: Barrows on the West Part of Blackdown, Kingston Russell, Dorset

<7> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 5099-100 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11149.

<8> Royal Air Force, 09-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 3063-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11112.

<9> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053 014-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11150.

<10> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR (Index). SDO12304.

As above but reduced by ploughing, 0.9m high, with faint encircling depression possibly the remains of a ditch. The barrow is in a regularly ploughed field of ley pasture. 1/3/C

<11> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451239 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<11> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

Record last edited

Jun 1 2022 9:50AM