Monument record MDO1382 - Black Down: bowl barrow

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, 35ft. in diam and 1ft. high (RCHM).

<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. … (g), 15 yards S.E. of (f), is 35 ft. in diam. and 1 ft. high.’

<3> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 112 (Index). SDO12304.

Reduced and spread since the RCHM survey. The diameter unsurveyable and the height 0.1m. Situated on a N facing slope. Seen as a vague swelling of darker soil, almost ploughed out. Newly ploughed and sown with grass when visited. 1/6/E

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Record last edited

Jan 24 2024 2:47PM