Monument record MDO1504 - 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 27 feet in diameter with a mound about 2½ feet high, with a ditch around it.

A bowl barrow with a ditch. Diameter 9 paces, height 2 ft. <2>

A grass covered bowl barrow, 9.0m in diameter and 0.6m high, with a surrounding ditch 1.5m wide and 0.2m deep. <4>

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 57059106] 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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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 … (c), 60 yards S.W. of the end of the bank barrow, is 27 ft. in diam., 2½ ft. high and has a slight ditch.’

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 27-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 5 (Index). SDO12304.

Description as above, some irregularity of mound and the ditch is not well defined. Probably ony 0.1m deep. In pasture. 1/2/B

<6> McOmish, D and Tuck, C, 2000, Long Bredy Bank Barrow, Long Bredy, Dorset (Unpublished document). SDO16431.

<7> 06-OCT-2000, NMR SY/5791/45-54 (18969/01-08, 23-24) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11114.

<8> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3148-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11113.

<9> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053 012-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11106.

<10> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<11> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451139 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 16 2023 2:27PM