Monument record MDO1392 - Bowl barrow on White Hill, Littlebredy

A bowl barrow 120m east of White Hill Wood. The barrow has a mound composed of earth, chalk and flint with a maximum diameter of 25m and a maximum height of about one metre. An infilled quarry ditch surrounds the mound, surviving as a buried feature. The barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs.

Bowl barrow, diameter 20 paces, height 31/2 ft. <2>

Bowl barrow, 70ft. in diam and 4ft. high. <3>

A grass covered ditchless bowl barrow, with a slight hollow in the centre. Diameter 20.0m, height 1.5m. <4>

SY 59748890. Littlebredy 23. Bowl barrow listed, details as Authy 2. <5>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow lying at SY5973688895. The barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs <7> 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.

(SY 59738888) Tumulus (NR)

<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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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 Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 28-MAR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 117 (Monograph). SDO132.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 144 (Index). SDO12304.

Reduced and spread by ploughing. 1.1m high, 21.0m diameter. No trace of hollow in top mentioned by OS in 1955. Barrow appears as a prominent rise in a newly ploughed field. The barrow is ploughed over. 1/3/C

<7> 11-JUN-1978, NMR OS/78080 036-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11658.

<8> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450336 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2024 3:41PM