Monument record MDO2125 - Eggardon Hill, barrow or hengiform monument, Powerstock

A circular banked enclosure, possiby the site of a Bronze Age barrow or hengiform monument, visible on aerial photographs. In 1952 this monument was reported as being around 61 feet in diameter, and the bank around 1½ feet high.

Uncertain. This might be an earthern circle or a truncated bowl barrow. Diameter 24 paces, height 1 1/2 ft. <3>

A group of barrows which are grass covered, but on arable land, and have all been ploughed over in recent years. Barrow F: A circular flinty bank 6 metres wide and 0.3 metres high with a modern 1.5 metre break in the north. Grass covered, and interior 14 metres in diameter. On the west side the bank is poorly defined. This appears to be an earth circle rather than a bowl barrow. No visible ditch. <4>

ircular banked enclosure, 25m across is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs to the east of Eggardon Hillfort. The site lies within a Bronze Age cemetery and may be the site of a Bronze Age barrow or hengiform monument. A gap is visible on its eastern side which may be a later feature. <5-6> The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

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

[Group centred SY 54659449] TUMULI [OE] [Twice] TUMULUS [OE] (Site of)

<2> 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. … To the S. of the disc barrow are three more — (h), 125 yards S.S.W. of (a), is a small ringwork, possibly a barrow, 61 ft. in diam. measured from the centre of the bank, which is 1½ ft. high;’

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 20-MAY-1955 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> 16-MAR-1972, NMR SY 5494/12-13 (387/418-428) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11413.

<6> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2451 4152-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11411.

<7> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/088 RCHME Inventory: Dorset I (West) and Revision (Unpublished document). SDO17367.

<8> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 881774 (Index). SDO14738.

RCHME: Barrows SE of Eggardon Camp, Askerswell, Dorset. Inscription: Distribution plan of barrows

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1456640 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 30 2023 1:49PM