Monument record MDO2126 - Bell barrow, Eggardon Hill, Powerstock

A Bronze Age bell barrow on Eggardon Hill, forming part of a barrow cemetery of at least eleven round barrows. The mound has a diameter of 12 metres and a height of 1.3 metres. The ditch is 2.5 metres wide and 0.2 metres deep, except on the east side. Only faint traces of a berm are visible. The top of the mound has been dug into.

A bell-barrow: A small example, with a hollow in the top of the mound. Diameter of mound 27 feet and height 2 1/2 feet. The berm is 8 1/2 feet wide and the ditch 7 feet wide and 6 inches deep. <1> <3-5>

One of a group of barrows which are grass covered, but on arable land, and have all been ploughed over in recent years.
Barrow G: This bell barrow shows only faint traces of a berm. The mound is 12 metres in diameter, and 1.3 metre high. There is a ditch 2.5 metres wide and 0.2 metres deep, except on the east side. The mound has been dug into on top. <7>

Listed as Powerstock 6b by Grinsell. <8>

A Bronze Age bell barrow on Eggardon Hill, forming part of a barrow cemetery. The barrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs.{1-2}

One of three barrows South of the disc barrow. Bell barrow with an overall diam of 60ft., the centre has been much disturbed but the mound was approximately 23ft. In diam and 2.5ft. High. {3}

<1> Warne, C, 1872, Ancient Dorset, 60 (Monograph). SDO10094.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

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

<3> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1929, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1928, 119 (Serial). SDO32.

<4> Piggott, S, and Piggot, C M, 1939, 'Stone and Earth Circles in Dorset', Antiquity Volume 13 Issue 50, 138-158 (Article in serial). SDO19843.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<6> 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. ... (i), 50 yards S.S.W. of (h), has the appearance of a bell barrow, the diam. is 60 ft. overall, the centre has been much disturbed but the mound was approximately 23 ft. in diam. and 2½ ft. high;'

<7> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 20-MAY-1955 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<8> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 164 (Monograph). SDO132.

<9> 08-MAY-1968, CUCAP (ARE48) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11419.

<10> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2451 4152-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11411.

<11> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<12> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 881774 (Index). SDO14738.

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

<13> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1456641 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 17 2023 12:04PM