Monument record MDO1506 - Bronze Age bowl barrow on Long Barrow Hill, Long Bredy

A Bronze Age bowl barrow on Long Barrow Hill. In 1952 this barrow was reported as being around 30 feet in diameter with a mound about 4 feet high.

A bowl barrow, one of a group of monuments clustered in the vicinity of the Long Bredy bank barrow. Listed by RCHME as Long Bredy 8e and by Grinsell as Long Bredy10, it was described by RCHME as a mound 30 feet in diameter and 4 feet high. Ordnance Survey field investigation in 195 noted traces of a surrounding ditch. <1-2>

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. <6-8>

<1> 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 (175 ft.-612 ft. above O.D.). . . . (e), 70 yards N.E. of the end of the bank barrow, is 30 ft. in diam. and 4 ft. high.’

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 117 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 8 (Index). SDO12304.

Grass covered bowl 12.0m diameter, 1.0m high. Little impression of the ditch and ploughing has squared base of barrow on eastern side. Field around barrow is regularly ploughed and in grass. 1/3/C

<4> McOmish, D and Tuck, C, 2000, Long Bredy Bank Barrow, Long Bredy, Dorset (Unpublished document). SDO16431.

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<6> 06-OCT-2000, NMR SY/5791/45-54 (18969/01-08, 23-24) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11114.

<7> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3148-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11113.

<8> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053 012-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11106.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1315455 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Dec 12 2023 6:32AM