Monument record MDO1860 - Bronze Age bowl barrow, Moigns Down, Owermoigne

A bowl barrow, 35ft diameter by 4ft high with top dug into; situated on Moigns Down. <2> <3>

In pasture. Diameter 13.0m, height 1.5m. No visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of 2002 and 2009 on Moigns Down, Owermoigne. The barrow is sub-circular in shape and measures approximately 12 m in diameter. <6-7> The barrow is scheduled together with three others located to the east (see MDO1861, MDO1862 and MDO1863). This feature was digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 75608362) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 122 (Monograph). SDO132.

<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.

(24) Bowl (SY 78 SE; 75608362) on Moigns Down. Diam. 35 ft., ht. 4 ft. Top dug into. In pasture.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 06-AUG-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<6> Dorset County Council, XX-XXX-2002, Dorset CC Vertical Digital Photo Tile (Aerial Photograph). SDO13248.

<7> Dorset County Council, XX-XXX-2009, Dorset CC Vertical Digital Photo Tile (Aerial Photograph). SDO13314.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454199 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 9 2021 2:42PM