Monument record MDO1715 - Bowl barrow, Minterne Magna

A mound thought to be a Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1952 this monument was recorded as being around 34 feet in diameter with a mound about 2¾ feet high, with a circular depression in the centre. The feature is visible as an earthwork on current Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

(ST 65150488) Tumulus (NR) (1)

A mound, probably the remains of a barrow, 1050yds north west of the church on the south side of the road. It is 34ft in diameter and 2 3/4ft high with a circular sinking in the middle. (2-3)

A circular mound of compacted flint and earth, 16.0m overall diameter, with no visible ditch. The middle of the mound is quite flat, 8.0m in diameter, 0.4m above natural ground level and enclosed by a bank or rim approximately 4.0m wide overall and 0.7m high (0.3m high on the inner side). The depressed centre is absolutely regular and the perimeter rim appears to
be an original feature suggesting a possible ring barrow. It is grass covered in a plantation of mature oak and apparently undamaged.

Published 1:2500 survey revised. (4)

The feature is visible as an earthwork on current Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature appears to comprise a 12m in diameter mound and there is the slightest suggestion of an external ditch, more evidence ton the east, west and north sides of the mound. The feature was digitally plotted during the Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project. <8>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 170 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(8) MOUND, probably the remains of a barrow, to the S. of the road, 1,050 yards N.W. of the church, is about 34 ft. in diam. and 2¾ ft. high. There is a circular sinking in the middle.’

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 121 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1962 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 65150488) Tumulus (NR)

<4> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 883071 (Index). SDO14738.

RCHME: `Celtic' Fields, Alton Pancras, Buckland Newton, Dorset Publication proof, scored on acetate, `305' written in pencil above the site details.Bibliographic References : 1) Pt 2, Group (39), see also Vol 1 (Cerne Abbas)

<5> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 19-OCT-76 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<6> DCMS, 1996, Scheduled Monument Notification 1996, 18-11-1996 (Scheduling record). SDO17377.

<7> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 198882 (Index). SDO14738.

<8> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Dec 20 2024 6:48PM