Monument record MDO1411 - Bowl barrow on Black Down, Littlebredy

Site of a probable Bronze Age bowl barrow, noted by field investigators as a plough-levelled mound and also visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs

An apparent flinty bowl barrow, measuring 10.0m diameter and 0.7m high with unsurveyable traces of a surrounding ditch situated on recently reclaimed land. <1>

`C` SY 60278748. The remains of a probable bowl-barrow consisting of a ploughed-spread flinty mound 6.0m. in diameter and 0.2m. high. There is no visible evidence of a ditch. Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <3>

Also visible as a cropmarked mound on aerial photographs <5>, measuring approximately 8 metres in diameter and surrounded by a 1 meter wide outer ditch, except along the south-east part. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 25-MAR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(`A` - SY 60098745; `C` - SY 60278748) Tumulus (NR) twice

<3> Stone, J W, Field Investigators Comments JWS, F2 JWS 11-MAR-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11902.

<4> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 180 (Index). SDO12304.

‘Measurements as above but the barrow has been severely mutilated by recent ploughing; there are numerous large flints and sarsens on the site. 7/6/E.’

<5> 20-7-1989, NMR OS/89389 152-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11904.

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452328 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 25 2024 3:52PM