Monument record MDO1947 - Bowl barrow, Piddletrenthide

A bowl barrow reported as being around 36 feet in diameter, and very heavily ploughed, with the mound surviving as a very slight earthwork. The site of a Bronze Age round barrow is marked on the OS first edition map to the southwest of HogLeaze, Piddletrenthide. It is visible as an extant earthwork on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

An almost levelled bowl barrow. Diameter 12 paces, height 3 ins. (2)

The site of this barrow is visible as an uneven 'bump' on the ground and is no longer recognisable as a barrow. Under grass. <3>

(SY 73989878) Bowl barrow, 36ft diameter and 4 ins high, almost ploughed out, situated west of Hog Leaze in the south-east of an arable field. <5>

Nothing visible, ploughed out. <6>

The site of a Bronze Age round barrow is marked on the OS first edition map to the southwest of HogLeaze, Piddletrenthide. It is visible as an extant earthwork on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project <8>.

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

(SY 73079878) 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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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 Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 30-NOV-54 (Unpublished document).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> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 73079878) Tumulus (NR) (Site of)

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 221 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(50) Bowl (73089878), W. of Hog Leaze in the S.E. angle of an arable field, lies on a gentle E. slope near the top of a ridge at 400 ft. above O.D. It is almost ploughed out. Diam. 36 ft., ht. 4 ins.'

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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 07-NOV-80 (Unpublished document).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

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454685 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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

Record last edited

Oct 15 2024 6:26PM