Monument record MDO1302 - Bowl barrow, Kingston Russell

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

45ft. In diam and 5ft. High. Similar information to <2>. <3>

B. A grass covered bowl barrow with no visible ditch, and a hollow in the top. Diameter 10.0m, height 0.7m. 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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 30-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 18 (Index). SDO12304.

‘Mound 10.0m diam., ht. 0.7m. As 8A above. 7/2/D.’

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Dec 23 2023 7:37AM