Monument record MDO2132 - Bowl barrow, Knight's Hill, Powerstock

A mound, probably a barrow on Knight's Hill. It is 60ft in diam and 5ft high. It has been much disturbed and has a central hollow presumably resulting from antiquarian excavation. The feature is visible on aerial photographs and lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

A ditchless grass-covered bowl barrow, situated on the hill-top at SY 4971 9692, is 21.0 metres in diameter by 1.6 metres high. It has a large central hollow, apparently resulting from excavation, the spoil from which has been spread to the south. Surveyed at 1:2500. <2>

Scheduled under Burial Mounds etc Dorset 431.<4>

A mound, probably a barrow on Knight's Hill. It is 60ft in diam and 5ft high. It has been much disturbed. (1). The feature is visible on aerial photographs and lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP <5-6>. It has a large central hollow presumably resulting from antiquarian excavation.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 186 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(31) MOUND, probably a barrow, on Knight's Hill, over 1¼ m. W.N.W. of the church, is 60 ft. in diam. and 5 ft. high. It has been much disturbed.'

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 27-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 4970 9692) Tumulus (NR)

<4> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 68 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 20-JUL-1989, OS/89388 046-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14306.

<6> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM, sy4996ne_dtm_50cm.asc (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 449882 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 14 2022 2:31PM