Monument record MDO1829 - Upton, Bronze Age barrow mutilated by WWII gun emplacement

Four bowl barrows at wide intervals in W-E line along spine of ridge above 400ft contour at Osmington.

(A) Bowl (74698259). Much damaged by gun emplacement in centre. <1> <3>

Barrows A,B and C are those Scheduled. <4>

SY 749826. Three barrows south of Poxwell Big Wood. Scheduled. <5>

'A' SY 74678260. Bowl barrow in pasture. Overgrown and very mutilated. Diameter 14.0m., height 1.5m. No visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

Bronze Age barrow mutilated by a WWII gun emplacement. The site is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs <7> and was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 122 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 74698259; SY 74928260; SY 75108258; SY 75208257 Tumulus (NR) (twice) Tumuli (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 447 (Monograph). SDO150.

(M) Group (SY 78 SW, SE). Four bowls at wide intervals in W.-E. line along spine of ridge above 400 ft. contour. 'Celtic' field lynchets of Ancient Field Group (12) lie 11 yds. to 14 yds. N. of (39–41).
(38) Bowl (74698259). Much damaged by gun emplacement in centre.

<4> Department of the Environment, DOE (IAM) Ancient Monuments Record Form, 14.10.71 (Index). SDO17347.

<5> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 12 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 14-JUL-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 4444-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11767.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454307 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 26 2024 12:54PM