Monument record MDO1508 - Long Barrow Hill: bowl barrow

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>

A bowl barrow, one of a group of monumetns in the vicinity of the Long Bredy bank barrow (SY 59 SE 27). Listed by RCHME as Long Bredy 8 (g) and by Grinsell as Long Bredy 9, it was described by RCHME as a mound 32 feet indiameter and 2.5 feet high. Some disturbance in the middle was noted, although there appears to be no record of an excavation. <4> <5>

NB this barrow was formerly recorded as part of SY 59 SE 43. That record should be consulted for additional sources and information.

<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> Royal Air Force, 27-OCT-1971, RAF 38/3817 0145-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11060.

<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 (575 ft.-612 ft. above O.D.). … The remaining barrows are seven in number … (g), 50 yards N. of the end of the bank barrow, is 32 ft. in diam. and 2½ ft. high; the middle has been disturbed.’

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 117 (Monograph). SDO132.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 7 (Index). SDO12304.

Mound now reduced by ploughing and only appears as a slight swelling 0.1m high of darker soil spread to 15.0m diameter. Newly ploughed and planted in grass when visited. 1/6/E

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 McOmish, D and Tuck, C, 2000, Long Bredy Bank Barrow, Long Bredy, Dorset (Unpublished document).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

<8> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1315451 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 11 2022 4:51PM