Monument record MDO1716 - Bowl barrow on Farm Hill, Minterne Magna

A mound thought to be a Bronze Age round barrow. In 1952 this monument was recorded as being around 51 feet in diameter with a mound about 1½ feet high high. It has been disturbed in the middle, presumably by antiquarian investigation. 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.

A bowl barrow. <3>

A grass-covered bowl barrow with no visible ditch, situated on an east facing slope. <4>

This barrow has been totally destroyed; under cultivation when visited but no soil mark visible on the ground. <5>

The feature is visible as a low earthwork on current Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project. <8>

<1> Annotated Record Map 6 inch, 1962 (Map). SDO17376.

(ST 65880336) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 170 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(9) MOUND, probably a barrow, on Farm Hill, 1,070 yards S. of the church, is 51 ft. in diam. and 1½ ft. high. It has been disturbed in the middle.’

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 121 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, 19-09-1955 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, 28-10-1976 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

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

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 198876 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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

Record last edited

Oct 22 2024 3:22PM