Monument record MDO1428 - Bowl barrow on Hodder's Hill, Litton Cheney

A bowl barrow; diameter 20 paces, height 31/2 ft. <2>

A grass covered ditchless bowl barrow, diameter 20.0m., height 1.2m. there is a depression on the top of the mound,
slightly N of its centre. <4>

This feature has been cancelled on the Field Document. <6>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow, visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs <7> on Hodder's Hill. The mound is marked on the OS 1st Edition Map (MDO1428).

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

[SY 53999093] TUMULUS [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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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), 137 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(17) Bowl Barrow, on Hodder's Hill ¾ m. W. of the church, is 53 ft. in diam. and 4 ft. high.'

<4> Quinnell, N V, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 27-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

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

<6> LS Surveyor, 25" 30.10.63 (Verbal communication). SWX1342.

<7> 20-MAY-1975, CUCAP (RC8AX 278-9) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11389.

<8> Historic England, National Record of the Historic Environment, 451514 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 2 2026 3:02PM