Monument record MDO2043 - Bowl barrow, one of the Black Down Barrow Group, Portesham

Site of a possible Bronze Age bowl barrow. It measures 12 meters in diameter and 1 meter in height and is one of a group of potential barrows situated on Black Down.

Site of a possible Bronze Age bowl barrow. It measures 12 meters in diameter and 1 meter in height and is one of a group of potential barrows situated on Black Down. <3>

Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 1068 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20716.

Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 209 (Index). SDO12304.

‘Dimensions as above. Heather covered and crossed by an E-W footpath. Constructed of heathland soils and gravel. 1/3/C.’

<1> Cunnington, E, 1915, Cunnington MSS, No 52 (Unpublished document). SDO10110.

<2> Thompson, M W, and Ashbee, P, 1957, Excavation of a barrow near the Hardy monument, Black Down, Portesham, Dorset; Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 23 (Article in serial). SDO17266.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 449 (Monograph). SDO150.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1175393 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 27 2024 11:14AM