Monument record MDO1535 - Bowl barrow on Martin's Down, Long Bredy

SY 57449090. A bowl barrow, diameter 14 paces, height 1 ft. <1>

A grass covered ditchless bowl barrow, diameter 12.0m, height 0.3m. Not published on OS 6" last Edition. <4>

A small round mound is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs <6> at SY57459 90886. Possible site of a Bronze Age Barrow on Martin's Down.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 41-42 (Monograph). SDO97.

Not mentioned.

<3> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1952, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1951, 81 (Serial). SDO51.

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 Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 28-APR-55 (Unpublished document).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

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey (Index). SDO12304.

ittle impression of a bowl remaining apart from area of broken flint in grassland pasture and a slight rise (possibly 0.1m). 7/7/E

<6> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053 012-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11106.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451162 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 16 2023 2:44PM