Monument record MDO2213 - Bowl barrow, Laycock Dairy Farm, Piddetrenthide

One of two Bronze Age bowl barrows aligned north west by south east, situated on a low ridge. The barrows each have a mound composed of earth and chalk, with maximum dimensions of 16 metres and 14 metres in diameter respectively and about 0.5 metres in height. Each mound is surrounded by a quarry ditch which have become infilled over the years, but will survive as buried features 1.5 metres wide.

Two ditchless, grass covered bowl barrows. A. Diameter 21.0m, height 0.5m. <2>

Two bowl barrows. (No dimensions given). <3>

'A' - (43) SY 71519476 Bowl barrow situated 300 yds south west of Laycock Dairy Farm is now almost completely ploughed out and shows only as slight rise in the natural slope. <4>

Two ploughed bowl barrows; neither has a visible ditch. `A' SY 71519475, diameter 16.0m., height 0.5m. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

The barrow is visible as an earthwork mound with surrounding ditch on aerial photographs. <6>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

1. (A-SY 71519476 B-SY714529474 TUMULI (OE)

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 02-DEC-1954 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 231 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(43) Bowl (71519476), 300 yds. S.W. of Laycock Dairy Farm on the lower N. slope of Waterston Ridge, is now almost completely ploughed out and shows only as a slight rise in the natural slope.'

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F5 JGB 12-NOV-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> 06-DEC-2006, NMR SY 7194/21-4 (24497/43-6) (Aerial Photograph). SDO10685.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454960 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 13 2024 11:36AM