Monument record MDO1901 - Bowl barrow south west of Bourne Farm, Piddlehinton

A bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as being ploughed, and surviving as a very slight earthwork. The barrow was recorded during the Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project, it is visible as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs with a slight internal mound on lidar imagery.

A bowl barrow. (No dimensions given). <2>

A grass covered bowl barrow with no evidence of a ditch or excavation. Diameter 23.0 metres, height 0.9 metres.<3>

(SY 72789719) Bowl barrow, almost completely ploughed out, 300 yds. West-south-west of Bourne Farm. <4>

SY 72789719. Barrow, ploughed-down; diameter 18.0 metres, height 0.5 metres. No visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500
on MSD. <5>

The barrow was recorded during the Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project, it is visible as a cropmark ring ditch 22m across on aerial photographs, with a slight internal mound on lidar imagery <7-8>.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 72799719) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 30-NOV-1954 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 212 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(21) Bowl (72789719), 300 yds. W.S.W. of Bourne Farm, at about 325 ft. above O.D. Almost completely ploughed out.’

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 07-NOV-1980 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454710 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<7> Google Earth, 01/01/2022, Google Earth 2022 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18611.

<8> Environment Agency, 15-DEC-2023, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO20691.

Record last edited

Nov 1 2024 1:58PM