Monument record MDO1863 - Bronze Age bowl barrow, Moigns Down, Owermoigne

'B' - SY 76078384. A ditched bowl barrow 53ft diameter by 6ft high on slope to south of 'A'. <2> <4>

'B' - SY 76078383. In arable but not ploughd over. Diameter 15.0m, maximum height 2.2m No visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of the 1940s <1> and 2009 <7> on Moigns Down, Owermoigne. The barrow is sub-oval in shape and measures approximately 17 m by 14 m. It is surrounded by a narrow ditch. The barrow is scheduled together with three others located to the north and west (see MDO1860, MDO1861 and MDO1864). This feature was digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 4441-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13844.

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

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

('A' - SY76038374; 'B' - SY 76078384) Tumulus (NR) (twice)

<4> 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.

'(27) Ditched bowl (?) (SY 78 SE; 76078384) on slope to N. Diam. 53 ft., ht. 6 ft.'

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 08-SEP-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

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

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454202 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 9 2021 3:10PM