Monument record MDO1523 - Bowl barrow, Long Bredy

Two bowl barrows: 'A' - diameter 20 paces, height 31/2 ft on arable. 'B' - diameter 20 paces, height 3ft. <2>

One of two barrows, 54ft. in diam and 2.5ft. high. <3>

'A' - Grass covered ditchless bowl barrow; diameter 29.0m, height 1.3m.
'B' - Ditchless bowl barrow, under the plough; diameter 24.0m, height 1.0m. <4>

'B' - SY 58678677. Long Bredy 17. <5>

SY 584868 - SY 587868. Two round barrows south of the Grey Mare and her Colts. Scheduled. <6>

Bronze Age bowl barrow, 14m across, visible as earthworks on aerial photographs <8> and digitally plotted as part of the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

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

('A' - SY 58388681; 'B' - SY 58678677) Tumulus (NR) twice

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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 28-MAR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

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

<6> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 65 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<7> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 49 (Index). SDO12304.

Reduced and spread by ploughing, 25.0m diameter and 0.8m high. In a regularly ploughed field under grass. 1/5/D

<8> 06-DEC-2006, NMR SY 5886/9-10 (24500/01-2) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11669.

<9> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450330 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 17 2023 2:05PM