Monument record MDO19 - Barrow on Wears Hill, Abbotsbury

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, one of a group running along the ridge of Wears Hill and White Hill. In 1952 this monument was reported as being around 12 feet in diameter with a mound about one foot high.

All bowl barrows; barrows D-G noted by RCHM. 'G' Diameter 4 paces, height 1 ft. <1>

Similar information and positions approximate to those given above except that barrow 'F' is only 10 yds N of barrow 'C'.<2>

'G' - SY 56148622. 'E' and 'G'. Two grass covered, probable bowl barrows, 11.0m and 5.0m diameter, and 0.5m and 0.3m high respectively. 'E' has a much mutilated centre. 'G' is well shaped. Ditchless. <3>

'G' - SY 56148623? Abbotsbury 16. Bowl barrows listed, details as Authy 1. <4>

The bowl barrow is visible on aerial photographs and was digitally plotted during the the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project. <6>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 11 (Monograph). SDO97.

'BARROWS, on or near the ridgeway running along Wears Hill and White Hill on the N. side of the parish, form three groups. The first group consists of seven barrows with a possible outlier to the S. ... (f), 43 yards E. of (d), is 12 ft. in diam. and 1 ft. high.'

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 21-MAR-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 85 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1967 (Map). SWX1540.

<6> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3284-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11620.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450353 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 23 2024 4:46PM