Monument record MDO1520 - Long mound, possible long barrow, Long Bredy

Listed by RCHM as a mound, roughly rectangular with rounded angles, 96ft long and 56ft wide.

A rectilinear mound, 23m by 14m, is visible as low earthworks on aerial photographs <8> to the east of Ashley Chase Dairy. It has previously been described as a doubtful long barrow or conjoined round barrows,orientated NNE-SSW.

(SY 56688823) "Long Barrow? Impossible to say by mere inspection - no signs of ditches - shape tends towards rectangular". <2>

A doubtful long barrow; it may be conjoined round barrows, orientated NNE-SSW. Length 100 ft, width 60ft, height 3ft. <3>

Listed by RCHM as a mound, roughly rectangular with rounded angles, 96ft long and 56ft wide. <4>

A ditchless grass covered and rather rectangular mound, 30.0m long, 17.0m wide and with an average height of 0.6m. The mound is flat on top, and it is situated on a S facing slope. Mole casts in the top of the mound show it to be composed of a dark sandy soil.

There is no reason to suppose it may be an example of conjoined round barrows, for there is no visible definition of two barrows, either in plan or elevation. For a long barrow the NNE-SSW orientation is unusual; other features could have been destroyed if the barrow had been excavated. The feature is a doubtful barrow. <5>

It has no significant higher end and appears to have been partly levelled for a building platform. <6>

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

(SY 56688823) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Crawford, O G S, Annotated record map 6 inch (Map). SWX7265.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 42 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(14) MOUND, 1½ m. S. of the church, is roughly rectangular with rounded angles, 96 ft. long and 56 ft. wide.'

<5> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 12-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<6> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F2 JR 15-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<7> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 80 (Monograph). SDO132.

<8> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3304-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11644.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450276 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 11 2023 4:06PM