Monument record MDO154 - Bronze Age bowl barrow on Beaminster Down, Beaminster

Bronze Age bowl barrow, one of a small group of barrows on Beaminster Down. The round mound is 24m across and visible as earthworks on lidar imagery and aerial photographs. It was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

(A' - ST 49710387) Tumulus (NR) (1)

'A'. Barrow 66 feet by 96 feet across and 10 feet high. This and the barrow to the south were opened in 1874 by S.S. Cox (See ST 40 SE 15).

'A'. A bramble covered ditchless bowl barrow cut by a pronounced excavation trench. It is 24.0m. across from NW to SE, and 27.0m. across NE to SW, and is 2.6m. high on the east.

'A' scheduled as an ancient monument. (4)

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

(A' - ST 49710387) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 27 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(61) BOWL BARROWS, on Beaminster Down 1¾ m. N.E. of the church, are four in number. ... (b), 480 yards to the N., is 66 ft. by 96 ft. in diam. and 10 ft. high. These barrows were opened in 1874 by S.S. Cox who found in one of them, near the middle, an inverted "crock" full of bones and with charred wood lying near; a second vessel was found at a higher level (R. Hine, Hist. of Beaminster, 1914, p.3).'

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 26-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> DOE, 1977, Scheduled Monument Notification DOE (IAM) AMs Eng 1977 82, 59 (Scheduling record). SWX3025.

<5> DCMS, 1996, Scheduled Monument Notification English Heritage Schedule Entry 18/11/1996, English Heritage Schedule Entry 18/11/1996 (Scheduling record). SDO17558.

<6> National Monuments Record, 16-FEB-2005, NMR ST 4903/1-2 (NMR 23810/01-2) (Aerial Photograph). SDO14518.

<7> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM, ST4903_dtm_1m.asc (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 192985 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 28 2022 11:11AM