Monument record MDO144 - Bowl barrow on Batcombe Down, Batcombe

A bowl barrow on Batcombe Down 450 metres south west of the Friary of St Francis. The barrow mound, previously recorded by the Ordnance Survey as a shallow flinty mound 10 metres in diameter and 0.3 metres high, is no longer visible. Surrounding the area of the mound is a quarry ditch from which material was excavated during its construction. This has become infilled over the years but survives as a buried fearure 2 metres wide.

A grass covered, flinty mound with no visible ditch. The mound has been dug out on top and flattened. It is 8.0m in diameter and 0.4m high. Probably a bowl barrow. <1-2>

Grinsell records this barrow as 8 paces in diameter and 1½ feet high. <3>

The area is regularly ploughed and only an amorphous unsurveyable rise remains at the position indicated. <4>

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1053-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17015.

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 29-SEP-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 33 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<4> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 23-SEP-76 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 199143 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 7 2024 2:41PM