Monument record MDO187 - Bowl barrow on Buckham Down, Beaminster

A low mound recorded by Ordnance Survey field investigators and interpreted as a probable Bronze Age bowl barrow. The mound was described as being much spread and around 82 feet in diameter with a mound about one foot high.

Grinsell recorded this barrow as 27 paces in diameter and 1 foot in height. <2>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1956, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1955, 136-137 (Serial). SDO55.

‘Barrows opened in 1912 at Wellwood Farm, Beaminster. In 1938 Mr. C. E. Bean gave to the Museum a copy of extracts from a notebook belonging to Mr. J. E. Batchelor referring to the opening of two barrows on Buckham Down, south of Wellwood Farm, by Mr. Batchelor and the late Mr. E. A Rawlence, who were respectively steward and estate agent for Colonel Digby. … Many of these details were independently recorded by the Ordnance Survey in the person of O. G. S. Crawford in 1927-8, and have been added to by present investigators of the O.S. Archaeology Division in 1955. … at ST 44780348, there is a probable bowl-barrow, much spread, with a diameter of about 82 feet and a height of about one foot, and no trace of a ditch.’

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 87 (Monograph). SDO132.

Record last edited

Dec 19 2016 5:11PM