Monument record MDO1507 - Bowl barrow on Long Barrow Hill, Long Bredy

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. {1-3}

One of seven bowl barrows, also near a bank barrow and a long barrow. 36ft. in diam and 3.5ft. high.

Four grass covered bowl barrows, with diameters from 10.0m to 12.0m and from 0.6m to 1.0m high. Very vague ditches may be seen surrounding barrows A and C, but these ditches are unsurveyable. <5>

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 (f) and by Grinsell as Long Bredy 11, it was described by RCHME as a mound 36 feet in diameter and 3.5 feet high. Ordnance Survey field investigation in 1955 noted vague traces of a surrounding ditch. <4> <5> <6> <8> <9>

<1> 06-OCT-2000, NMR SY/5791/45-54 (18969/01-08, 23-24) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11114.

<2> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3148-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11113.

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

<4> 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.). . . . (f), 120 yards N.E. of the end of the bank barrow, is 36 ft. in diam. and 3½ ft. high.’

<5> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 27-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<6> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 117 (Monograph). SDO132.

<7> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 9 (Index). SDO12304.

No ditch visible (vague remains in 1955) but the mound has taken on an angular plan at base as a result of ploughing and soils accumulate against southern side. 1/3/C

<8> Bailey, C J, 1982, The Bride Valley : the story of the past, with photographs of the present, 4 (Monograph). SWX1298.

<9> Bradley, R, 1984, The Bank Barrows and related monuments of Dorset in the light of recent field work; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 105, 15-20, 15-20 (Article in serial). SDO14130.

<10> McOmish, D and Tuck, C, 2000, Long Bredy Bank Barrow, Long Bredy, Dorset (Unpublished document). SDO16431.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<12> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451134 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 11 2022 5:06PM