Monument record MDO2141 - Bowl barrow on Eggardon Hill, Powerstock

A Bronze Age bowl barrow lying inside the Iron Age hillfort on Eggardon. In 1952 this monument was reported as being around 42 feet in diameter with a mound about two feet high. The mound is damaged.

A bowl barrow; diameter 13 paces, height 1 1/2 ft. There is a hollow in the top of the mound. <2>

A flat topped bowl barrow with no visible ditch. The barrow is 13.0m. in diameter and 0.4m. high, and is at present under crops. <4>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow lying inside Eggardon Hillfort. The barrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. <5>

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

[SY54119475] 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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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), 13 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(12) EGGARDON … Within the enclosure are two large mounds, probably barrows, that marked "A" on plan having a diameter of 42 ft. and a height of about 2 ft.; while mound "B" has a diameter of about 42 ft. and a height of 4½ ft. Both have been considerably damaged.'

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 20-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 4153-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11409.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451425 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 7 2024 7:23AM