Monument record MDO1398 - Bowl barrow, Littlebredy

One of a group of three bowl barrows situated on a chalk ridge of the South Dorset Downs. The barrows have mounds composed of earth, chalk and flint and a surrounded by infilled quarry ditches which survive as buried features.

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, 21ft. in diam and 0.75ft. 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>

'C' - SY 58928801. Littlebredy 22. <5>

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

<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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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 Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 28-MAR-55 (Unpublished document).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> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2) (Monograph). SWX1687.

<7> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 56 (Index). SDO12304.

Grass covered ditchless bowl barrow, 7.0m diameter, 0.3m high. The state of preservation of this small barrow suggests that the field is rarely ploughed. Under pasture. 1/2/B

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Oct 22 2024 2:12PM