Monument record MDO1955 - Bowl barrow, one of the Plush Hill Group, Piddletrenthide

The site of a plough-levelled Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch 17m across on aerial photographs. It is also visible as a very low earthwork mound on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

A barrow group. (See Table 1.) Three other barrows mentioned (2,3 and 4) could be part of this group. (See Table 2.) <1-2>

One of the Plush Hill Group, lies over 700ft. above O.D. on the top of a broad ridge, in an area that is interrupted by many depressions that are probably old chalk pits, traces of 'Celtic' fields also occur. Has been heavily ploughed. Bowl barrow, 56ft. in diam and 3ft. high. <5>

The site of a plough-levelled Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch 17m across on aerial photographs (NMR 1995 (8)). It is also visible as a very low earthwork mound on lidar imagery (Environment Agency Lidar 2021 (9)) and was digitally recorded during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

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 Quinnell, N V, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 11-FEB-55 (Unpublished document).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

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

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1962 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 71930176, ST 72020172, ST 72030169, ST 72050180, ST 72080179) Tumuli (NR)

<4> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1967, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1966, 145 (Serial). SDO66.

<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.

'(58) Bowl (72090182), 44 yds. E.N.E. of (57). Diam. about 56 ft., ht. 3 ft.'

<6> Barrett, G, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments GB, F2 GB 10-OCT-78 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202036 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<8> National Monuments Record, 07-AUG-1995, NMR 15346/06 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21481.

<9> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Nov 12 2025 6:04PM