Monument record MDO1503 - Bronze Age bowl barrow on Long Barrow Hill, Long Bredy

One of seven Bronze Age bowl barrows clustered around a bank barrow and a long barrow. In 1952 this monument was reported as being around 56 feet in diameter with a mound about 5 feet high, with a ditch around it. The top has been disturbed.

Bowl barrow; diameter 56 ft, height 5 ft. Ditched. <3>

A bowl barrow with a diameter of 18.0m, and a height of 1.8m, with surrounding ditch 3.0m wide, and an average depth of 0.4m. The barrow is grass covered, with a small hollow on top. <4>

A bowl barrow, one of a group of monuments clustered in the vicinity of the Long Bredy bank barrow (SY 59 SE 27). Listed by RCHME as Long Bredy 8 (d) and by Grinsell as Long Bredy 12, it was described by RCHME as a mound 35 feet in diameter and 3 feet high. <3-5>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow on Long Barrow Hill. The site is one of a group of monuments in the vicinity of the Long Bredy bank barrow (MDO1509) and is clearly visible on aerial photographs. <7-9>

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

[SY 57179110] 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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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), 41-42 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(8) BANK BARROW, LONG BARROW and BOWL BARROWS on Long Barrow Hill ¼ to ½ m. N. of the church (575 ft.-612 ft. above O.D.). … The remaining barrows are seven in number … (b), on the S.E. flank of the bank barrow, is 56 ft. in diam. and 5 ft. high and has a ditch; the top has been disturbed.’

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 27-APR-55 (Unpublished document).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 10 (Index). SDO12304.

Some impression of a ditch still surviving up to 0.2m deep, otherwise as RCHM. Ploughed around - darker soil as well as a slight depression indicates ditch. 1/2/B

<7> McOmish, D and Tuck, C, 2000, Long Bredy Bank Barrow, Long Bredy, Dorset (Unpublished document). SDO16431.

<8> 06-OCT-2000, NMR SY/5791/45-54 (18969/01-08, 23-24) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11114.

<9> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3148-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11113.

<10> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053 012-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11106.

<11> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<12> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451144 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<13> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1315459 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 12 2023 6:37AM