Monument record MDO1269 - Bowl barrow in the Black Down Group, Kingston Russell

A Bronze Age bowl barrow on Black Down, visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs, and one of a loose scatter of barrows. Ordnance Survey field investigation in 1954 described it as a flinty stubble covered bowl barrow 15 metres in diameter and 1.3 metres high with very faint traces of a surrounding ditch.

A bowl barrow, one of a loose scatter of barrows (see SY 59 SE 48 and associated monuments). Listed by RCHME as Kingston Russell 6c and by Grinsell as Kingston Russell 10, Ordnance Survey field investigation in 1954 described it as a flinty stubble covered bowl barrow 15 metres in diameter and 1.3 metres high with very faint traces of a surrounding ditch. <1-3>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow on Black Down. The barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. <4>

This barrow was formerly recorded as part of SY 59 SE 64. Note that there is some difficulty with that record. The barrow recorded here, at SY 58189057 is identified with that record's barrow 'A'. See SY 59 SE 64 for further details and sources. <7>

<1> 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. … (c) bowl barrow, 95 yards S. of (b), is about 35 ft. in diam. and 1½ ft. high.’

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 30-DEC-1954 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 115 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> 23-APR-1980, NMR SY 5790/7-9 (1749/063-5) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11152.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 30 (Index). SDO12304.

There is no visible trace of this ploughed out bowl barrow in a field of ley pasture. 7/7/E

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1316369 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 8 2024 3:12PM