Monument record MDO1383 - 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, 97ft. in diam and 9ft. 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. … (h) bowl barrow, 120 yards S.E. of (b), is 97 ft. in diam. and 9 ft. high.’

<3> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 113 (Index). SDO12304.

30.0m in diameter and 2.20m high and no longer ploughed. A ditch, visible as a soilmark in 1954, is no longer visible. The barrow has been protected from further damage by the provision of marker posts around the barrow approx. 2.0m from the perimeter of the mound. This provision has resulted in a square unploughed zone in a field which was ploughed and sown with grass when visited. 1/3/B

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Record last edited

Jan 24 2024 2:48PM