Monument record MDO1516 - White Hill: bowl barrow

A Bronze Age bowl barrow at White Hill visible as crop marks on aerial photographs. In 1952 this monument was reported as being around 41 feet in diameter with a mound about 4 feet high.

A bowl barrow, diameter 14 paces, height 3 ft. <2>

A grass covered ditch bowl barrow; diameter 12.0m., height 0.7m. <4>

The site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow at White Hill. The site is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. <6>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

[SY5744906S] 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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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), 42 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(11) BOWL BARROW, ¼ m. E.N.E. of the church, is 41 ft. in diam. and 4 ft. high.’

<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 Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 27-APR-55 (Unpublished document).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 15 (Index). SDO12304.

12.0m diameter and 0.7m high, rather flat top and sharp edges. No impression of a ditch. In grassland and in good condition. 1/2/B

<6> 07-AUG-1995, NMR SY 5790/10-11 (15374/22-23) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11123.

<7> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451154 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 16 2023 2:39PM