Monument record MDO1388 - Bowl barrow on White Hill, Littlebredy

Five bowl barrows on arable land. D is large, 30 paces in diameter and 7 ft high. The other four barrows are from 12 to 19 paces in diameter, and from 6ins to 3 ft high. <2>

Five ditchless bowl barrows on arable land:-
A. Diameter 22.0m, height 1.0m.
B. Diameter 14.0m, height 0.4m.
C. Diameter 19.0m, height 0.5m.
D. Diameter 30.0m, height 2.0m.
E. Diameter 11.0m, height 0.4m.
Barrows D and E are at present wholly or partly grass covered; the others have recently been cleared of crops. <4>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow lying at SY5922689309. The barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs <6-7> and is 12m across. It was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

A Bronze Age bowl barrow lying at SY5920489274. The barrow is visible as cropmarks and slight earthworks on aerial photographs <8-9> and is 16m across. It was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

[Group cented at SY 59308928] 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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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), 39 (Monograph). SDO97.

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 28-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 135 (Index). SDO12304.

The ploughed mound is spread by ploughing to a diameter of 22.0m. There is no sign of a ditch for this barrow which is situated in rotation arable for a dairy herd. Height 0.4m. 1/5/D

<7> 11-JUN-1978, NMR OS/78080 033-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11654.

<8> 21-APR-1984, NMR OS/84038 363-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11653.

<9> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450345 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 20 2024 4:23PM