Monument record MDO2047 - Bowl barrow, one of the Bronkham Hill Barrow Group, Portesham

Bronze Age bowl barrow, part of a larger barrow cemetery extending along the South Dorset Ridgeway. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 50 feet in diameter with a mound about 4 feet high. Visible as circular cropmark on aerial photographs

Four round barrows: 'D'. Bowl (?) (63508665) 220 yds. East North East of 'C'. Oval flinty mound 39 ft by 20 ft and 2 ft high. <1> <3>

'D'. SY 63498664. Bowl barrow in arable, diameter 9.0m., height 0.4m. No visible ditch. Severely ploughed down. 'D' Surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Site of a Bronze Age barrow, one of a group of four barrows (MDO2046-7 & MDO3150-1) and part of a larger barrow cemetery extending along the Dorset Ridgeway. It is visible as circular cropmark on aerial photographs <7> measuring approximately 10 metres in diameter. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 467 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(40) Bowl (62638694) 50 yds. S.S.E. of (39). Diam. 50 ft., ht. 4 ft. About halfway between it and (39) is small, possibly artificial, stony mound 15 ft. by 10 ft.’

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

('A' - SY 63168665; 'B' - SY 63248664) Tumuli (NR)

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 127, 155 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 22-FEB-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 294 (Index). SDO12304.

Dimensions as above. No visible ditch. Ploughed over in cultivated field. 1/5/D

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<7> 29-7-1997, DCC 2297 0261 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11935.

<8> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452476 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 9 2024 4:53PM