Monument record MDO1903 - Bowl barrow in Dole's Hill Plantation, Piddlehinton

A bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 40 feet in diameter with a mound about 3 feet high, and covered in scrub. The site of a Bronze Age round barrow is marked on the OS first edition map within Dole's Hill Plantation, Piddlehinton. It is visible as an extant earthwork on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

A Ciarn. Diameter 11 paces, height 2 ft. <2>

A bush covered bowl barrow with soil covering but with a large number of flints exposed. It has a flat top with a slightly sunken centre. Diameter 16.0 metres height 0.9 metres. <3>

(SY 73639863) A scrub-covered bowl barrow, 40 ft. diameter and 3 ft high. (<4>

SY 737984. Two round barrows in Doles Hill Plantation. Scheduled. <5>

SY 73639862. Bowl barrow in thick undergrowth; diameter 12.0 metres, height 0.5 metres. No visible ditch.
Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

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

(SY 73639862) 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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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 Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 30-NOV-54 (Unpublished document).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.

'(23) Bowl (73639863), 320 yds. N. of (22), on the summit of the same hill. Scrub-covered. Diam. 40 ft., ht. 3 ft.'

<5> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 67 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 07-NOV-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454700 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 15 2024 6:50PM