Monument record MDO1377 - Bowl barrow on Black Down, Littlebredy

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow on the ridge to the south of Black Down. The barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. {1}

One of 11, bowl barrow, 67ft. in diam and 4ft. high (RCHM).

National Record of the Historic Environment, 451256 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<1> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053 003-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11151.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 39 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(9) Barrows, forming a group of eleven, are ½ to ¾ m. N. of the church … (b) bowl barrow, 190 yards E.S.E. of (a), is 67 ft. in diam. and 4 ft. high.’

<3> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 108 (Index). SDO12304.

Now reduced and spread by ploughing 1.0m high and 24.5m in diameter. The mound was composed of a darker soil than that of the surrounding field. Three fragments of limestone were visible in the mound. There was no visible trace of the ditch. The mound is still visible a a prominent rise in the field which has been newly ploughed and sown with grass. 1/3/C

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

Record last edited

Jan 24 2024 3:05PM