Monument record MDO16 - Barrow on Wears Hill, Abbotsbury

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, one of a group running along the ridge of Wears Hill and White Hill. In 1952 this monument was reported as being around 15 feet in diameter with a mound about one foot high.

All bowl barrows; barrows D-G noted by RCHM. 'D' Diameter 5 paces, height 1 ft. <1>

Similar information and positions approximate to those given above except that barrow 'F' is only 10 yds N of barrow 'C'. <2>

'D' - SY 56018621; 'D' and 'F'. Two doubtful bowl barrows. The mounds are 5.0m and 3.0m in diameter and 0.4m and 0.3m high respectively. They are near circular and without ditches. 'D' is heather covered and is situated in uneven ground whilst 'F' may be spoil from the flat topped mound of 'C', <3>

'D' - SY 56018621? Abbotsbury 13. Bowl barrows listed, details as Authy 2. <4>

<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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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), 11 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(32) BARROWS, on or near the ridgeway running along Wears Hill and White Hill on the N. side of the parish, form three groups. The first group consists of seven barrows with a possible outlier to the S. … (c), 27 yards S.E. of (a), is 15 ft. in diam. and 1 ft. high’

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 21-MAR-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 85 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450353 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 23 2024 4:37PM