Monument record MDO1301 - Bowl Barrow, Kingston Russell

Two bowl barrows. A and B. Diameter 12 and 10 paces, heights 4 and 3 ft respectively. <2>

The northernmost of the two mounds, 35 feet in diameter and 3.5 feet high. <3>

A. A grass covered bowl barrow, rather spread to the NE, with traces of a ditch on the S and W. Diameter of the mound 15.0m, height 1.7m. These barrows are situated at the lowest point in the vicinity. <4>

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

[A-SY58269121 B-SY58259122] 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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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), 129 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(8) MOUNDS, about 200 yards S.S.E. of Kingston Russell Farm, are two in number. The more northerly is 35 ft. in diam. and 3½ ft. high; the second, 25 yards to the S.E., is 45 ft. in diam. and 5 ft. high.’

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, F1 NVQ 30-DEC-54 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 19 (Index). SDO12304.

‘Mound 4ft high and 12 paces diam. In good state of preservation. A ditch apparent in an unusually low position, badly drained and adjacent to a field wall to the NE. Slope rises steeply to the SW. In permanent pasture. 7/2/B.’

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451225 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 6 2024 4:55PM