Monument record MDO2127 - Bowl barrow east of Eggardon Hill, Powerstock

A Bronze Age bowl barrow to the east of Eggardon, one of a small cluster of three. In 1952 this monument was reported as being around 36 feet in diameter with a mound about 4 feet high, and possible traces of a surrounding ditch.

A bowl barrow. Diameter 12 paces, height 3 1/2 ft. <2>

One of a group of barrows which are grass covered, but on arable land, and have all been ploughed over in recent years. Barrow H: A bowl barrow with unsurveyable traces of a ditch. Diameter of mound, 12 metres; height 1.3 metres. The barrow has been dug out on top, and is also surmounted by an Ordnance Survey Triangulation Station. <4>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow on Eggardon Hill, forming part of a barrow cemetery. The barrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. <5-6>

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

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

<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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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. … To the S. of the disc barrow are three more — … (j) a bowl barrow, 25 yards S.E. of (i), is 36 ft. in diam. and 4 ft. high with traces apparently of a surrounding ditch; it has been much disturbed.’

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 Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 20-MAY-1955 (Unpublished document).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

<5> 08-MAY-1968, CUCAP (ARE48) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11419.

<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Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/088 RCHME Inventory: Dorset I (West) and Revision (Unpublished document).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, 1456642 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 30 2023 1:38PM