Monument record MDO1957 - Bowl barrow, Piddletrenthide

A bowl barrow partly disturbed by a later woodland bank on the eastern side. In 1970 this monument was reported as 32 feet in diameter with a mound about 3 feet high encircled by a ditch around 6 feet across and 6 inches deep. The barrow mound is 5m across with an external ditch, it was digitally recorded from lidar imagery during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM Project.

(ST 73140251) Tumulus (NR), (ST 72950220) Tumulus (NR). <1>

A barrow group centred ST 730023 (See Table). <2-4>

E. ST 72980227, A tree covered, but otherwise undisturbed bowl barrow 10.0m in diameter and 1.1m high. The ditch 3.0m wide and 0.4m deep, is overlain in the northwest quadrant by the plantation boundary.

Tumuli surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <5>

The barrow mound is 5m across with an external ditch, it was digitally recorded from lidar imagery during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM Project (Lidar 2021 (7)).

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch 2 (Map). SDO11594.

(ST 72980227) Tumuli

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 100 (Monograph). SDO132.

‘Group of small mounds - perhaps barrows; but three mounds of an analogous group (MELCOMBE HORSEY 2a) on the opposite side of Lyscombe Bottom have proved to be probably natural features.’

<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.

'(60) Bowl (72980228), 87 yds. N.N.E. of (59), is covered with trees, and an old copse bank has destroyed the ditch on the E. side. Diam. 32 ft., ht. 3 ft. Ditch 6 ft. across, 6 ins. deep.'

<4> Rigg, J, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments JR, F1 JR 25-AUG-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<5> Barrett, G, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments GB, F2 GB 08-NOV-78 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202054 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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

Record last edited

Nov 11 2025 11:28AM