Monument record MDO2124 - Bowl barrow, Powerstock

An oval mound, interpreted as a probable Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1952 this monument was reported as measuring 35 feet by 28 feet with a mound about 4½ feet high.

A small bowl barrow, diameter 8 paces, height 3 ft. <2>

slightly oval 35 ft x 28 ft and 4 1/2 ft high. <3>

A ditchless bowl barrow, cut by farm tracks on the N.W. and S. edges of the mound which have caused the barrow to have a slightly oval form. The barrow is now elongated NE-SW, and measures 10.0m x 8.0m, with a height of 1.2m. The bowl barrow is grass covered. <4>

Destroyed. <5>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

[SY 54729553] TUMULUS [OE]

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 185 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(29) BARROWS, in the S.E. angle of the parish and E. of Eggardon Camp. … (f), 490 yards N. of (a), is oval, 37 by 28 ft. and 4 ft. high; (g), 540 yards N. of (f), is oval, 35 by 28 ft. and 4½ ft. high.’

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 20-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Large Scale/Small Scale Map Reviser's comments, July 1968 (Verbal communication). SDO19451.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450855 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 4 2023 7:27AM