Monument record MDO2020 - Barrow inside Pilsdon Pen

A barrow is visible as a ditched earthwork inside Pilsdon Pen hillfort on aerial photographs. 49ft. in diam and 3ft. high (RCHM). The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

Two circular mounds, probably barrows: 'A' 49 feet in diameter by 3 feet high. 'C' 26 feet in diameter by 1 foot high. <4>

Two round barrows, both with surrounding ditches 2.0 metres wide by 0.3 metre deep.
'A' is 15.5m. diameter and 0.8m. high.
'C' is 9.0m. diameter by 0.5m. high.
(See attached 1:2500 plan). <5>

Barrows 'A' and 'C' as described above.
('B', 'D' and 'E' - see ST 40 SW 28 - also listed as possible barrows or pillow-mounds). <6>

Centred ST 41330121. Two plough damaged BA barrows within Pilsdon Pen Hillfort. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP <17-20>.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1890 (Map). SWX1540.

('A' - ST 41330123; 'C' - ST 41330119) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1902 (Map). SWX1197.

Tumuli

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1903 (Map). SWX1197.

Tumuli

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 180 (Monograph). SDO97.

<5> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 04-MAR-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<6> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, p125 Nos Pilsdon 1-5 (Monograph). SDO132.

<7> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1963 (Map). SWX1197.

<8> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1968 (Map). SWX1197.

Tumuli

<9> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1983, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1982, 178-179 (Serial). SDO82.

<10> Historic England, Historic England Archive, AF1007320 (Index). SDO14738.

RCHME: Pilsdon Pen, Dorset RCHME Exeter surveyed the Iron Age hillfort and associated earthworks in 1995 at the request of the National Trust and English Heritage.Contents : 2 plans, 3 computer generated overlays, Antiquity Model, report, correspondence, survey data, disk, field record formsCondition : INTACT

<11> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 1007324 (Index). SDO14738.

Pilsdon Pen/pencil survey

<12> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 1007326 (Index). SDO14738.

Pilsdon Pen, vegetation and management overlay

<13> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 1007323 (Index). SDO14738.

Pilsdon Pen/ink survey Antiquity Model: Revised

<14> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 1007325 (Index). SDO14738.

Pilsdon Pen, height and survey information

<15> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 1007327 (Index). SDO14738.

Pilsdon Pen, archaeological interpretation

<16> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 1007328 (Index). SDO14738.

Pilsdon Pen

<17> Ordnance Survey, 08-MAY-1996, OS/96569 V 122-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14566.

<18> National Monuments Record, 16-FEB-2005, NMR ST 4101/27-34 (NMR 23816/21-28) (Aerial Photograph). SDO14567.

<19> Dorset County Council, XX-XXX-2009, Dorset CC Vertical Digital Photo Tile, ST4101.ecw (Aerial Photograph). SDO13314.

<20> National Record of the Historic Environment, 193117 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 13 2025 5:04PM