Monument record MDO1950 - Bowl barrow, Piddletrenthide

A bowl barrow with a mound which is 12m in diameter and 0.5m high. Surrounding the mound is a quarry ditch which has become infilled over the years but survives as a buried feature 2m wide.

A bowl-barrow, 2 1/2 feet high. <2>

Heavily ploughed, it now appears as an irregular mound 2.5ft. high. <3>

A ditchless bowl-barrow with a depression in its centre. Diameter 13 metres, height 0.7 metres. <4>

A small bowl barrow reduced by ploughing to a low mound 12.0 m in diameter and 0.4 m high. There is now no trace of the central depression noted in the field report of 11.2.55. <4>

Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <5>

DCMS, 1996, Scheduled Monument Notification English Heritage Schedule Entry 18/11/1996 (Scheduling record). SDO17558.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1900, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch two (Map). SDO11594.

(ST 72580059) Tumulus (NR).

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 124 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 221 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(53) Barrow? (72580059), on Pond Eweleaze, is heavily ploughed; it now appears as an irregular mound 2½ ft. high.'

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 11-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Barrett, G, Various, Field Investigators Comments GB, F2 GB 02-NOV-78 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202002 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 20 2024 6:54PM