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. The barrow mound is visible as a very low earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

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>

The barrow mound is visible as a very low earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project. (7)

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

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch 2 (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 Quinnell, N V, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 11-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Barrett, G, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments GB, F2 GB 02-NOV-78 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

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

<7> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Nov 4 2025 1:26PM