Monument record MDO1390 - 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>

Bowl barrow, one of five, 90ft. In diam and 7ft. high. <3>

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 SY5935189324. The barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs <6> and is 30m across with traces of an outer ditch. 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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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 Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 28-FEB-55 (Unpublished document).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> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 137 (Index). SDO12304.

As above but reduced and spread by ploughing. Darker soil and less chalky on top of the mound. Newly ploughed and sown in grass. Mound 32.0m in diameter and 1.8m high. 1/3/C

<6> 20-JUL-1989, NMR OS/89389 113-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11656.

<7> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450345 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 20 2024 4:25PM