Monument record MDO2081 - North-west of Bronkham Hill, bowl barrow

A bowl barrow of probable Bronze Age date. Recorded as an extant mound during field investigation in 1980. Also visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs.

A bowl barrow of probable Bronze Age date located on a saddle on a ridge, north-west of Bronkham Hill. It is part of a larger linear barrow cemetery extending along the Dorset Ridgeway.

Ordnance Survey field investigation in 1980 noted an excavation pit 1.5 metres deep on the south-west side of the mound. No evidence of a ditch was observed. The mound measured 27.5 metres in diameter and a maximum of 1.6 metres in height. <1>

Also visible as an earthwork mound on aerial photographs <2>, measuring approximately 19 metres in diameter. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1986, Dorset Barrow Survey, SDR 254 (Index). SDO134.

‘Measurements as above. Gorse, grass and blackberry covered. 7/3/C.’

<1> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 12-MAR-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<2> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3297-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11895.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452557 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 8 2024 8:03PM