Monument record MDO1379 - 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, 59ft. in diam and 3ft. 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. … (d) bowl barrow, 110 yards E.N.E. of (b), is 59 ft. in diam. and 3 ft. high.’

<3> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 109 (Index). SDO12304.

Reduced and spread by ploughing. 0.45m high and 21.5m diameter. Seen as a slight rise of darker soil sown in grass when visited. 1/4/D

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Record last edited

Jan 24 2024 2:49PM