Monument record MDO1512 - Bronze Age bell barrow at Long Bredy Hut, Long Bredy

One of two Bronze Age barrows at Long Bredy Hut. In 1952 the barrow was described as being around 90 feet in diameter with a mound 6 to 9 feet high and disturbed in the middle.

One of two scheduled Bronze Age barrows to the north of the Roman road at Long Bredy Hut. Visible on aerial photographs. {1-2}

Berm and ditch are quarried away at South and impinged upon by road on North East, the mound has a hollow 5ft. deep on top (Grinsell).

One of four barrows in the area, probable bell barrow, 90ft. in diam and 6-9ft. high. the middle has been disturbed and there are traces of a ditch. (3)

<1> 16-FEB-2005, NMR SY5691/8-9 (23818/08-9) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11105.

<2> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3149-50 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11104.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 42 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(9) BARROWS, N. of the road-junction on Martin’s Down about ½ m. N. of the church, are four in number. (a) bowl barrow, 60 yards E. of the road-junction, is 62 ft. in diam. and 10 ft. high. (b) probably a bell barrow, 100 yards W.N.W. of (a), is 90 ft. in diam. and 6 to 9 ft. high; the middle has been disturbed; there are traces of a ditch. (c) probably a bell barrow, 45 yards N.W. of (b), is 75 ft. in diam. and 5 ft. high; it has a ditch. (d) perhaps a bowl barrow, 260 yards W.N.W. of (c), is approximately 40 ft. in diam. and 3½ ft. high; it has been ploughed.’

<4> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR (Index). SDO12304.

Not resurveyed but slight berm platform apparent on SW side. Cattle erosion on N. Clearly robbed by large cleft through centre from NE. Situated in a regularly ploughed field in ley pasture. 1/3/C

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

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Dec 17 2023 8:41AM