Monument record MDO1397 - Bowl barrow at Farm Wood, Littlebredy

Three bowl barrows, diameters of 'A' 'B' and 'C' 9, 5 and 7 paces respectively with heights of 1ft. 'A' has a hollow in the top. <2>

Bowl barrow, one of three, 18ft. in diam and 1ft. high. Listed as especially worthy of preservation. <3>

Three ditchless grass covered bowl barrows, A, B and C, with respective diameters 9.0m, 7.0m and 7.0m, and from 0.3m to 0.4m high. <4>

'B' - SY 58888814. Littlebredy 21. <5>

SY 588882. Three round barrows west of Little Bredy Farm. Scheduled. <6>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow lying on the top of a chalk ridge at SY5875987939. The barrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs <7> and is 9m across. It was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

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

('A' - SY 58788824; 'B' - SY 58878813; 'C' - SY 58928800) Tumulus (NR) (3 times)

<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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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 Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 28-MAR-55 (Unpublished document).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 55 (Index). SDO12304.

Ditchless, grass covered bowl barrow 7.0m diameter and 0.3m high. There is a hollow in the centre 1.0m x 1.0m deep, revealing that the mound is constructed of chalk rubble set in a dark earth. This hollow is probably the result of cattle erosion in a field of lush pasture. The state of preservation of this small barrow suggests that the field is rarely ploughed. 1/3/C

<7> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 3099-100 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11648.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450333 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 17 2023 1:14PM