Monument record MDO1517 - Bowl barrow north west of Dowerfield Farm, Long Bredy

A Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1952 this monument was reported as being around 48 feet in diameter with a mound about four feet high. The eastern side of the mound has been disturbed, possibly in the course of antiquarian investigation.

A bowl barrow; diameter 19 paces, height 4 1/2 ft. This barrow has been damaged. <2>

A bowl barrow, with no visible ditch, at present under crops. It has a diameter of 19.0m and is 0.8m high. Large flints are exposed on the flattened top. <4>

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

[SY 56219131] 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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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.

'(12) BARROWS, two, towards the W. side of the parish and 1,200 and 1,550 yards N.W. of the church respectively. The more southerly (a), bowl barrow, is 48 ft. in diam. and 4 ft. high; it has been disturbed on the E. side. (b), 370 yards N.W. of (a), has been almost ploughed out.'

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 27-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451124 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 16 2023 2:22PM