Monument record MDO2215 - Barrow, Laycock Dairy Farm, Puddletown

A Bronze Age bowl barrow situated on a south facing ridge. The barrow has a mound composed of earth and chalk, with maximum dimensions of 19 metres in diameter and about 0.6 metres in height. Surrounding the mound is a quarry ditch which has become infilled over the years, but will survive as a buried feature 2 metres wide.

A bowl barrow. (No dimensions given). <2>

A ditchless grass covered bowl barrow, with a flat top as though it has been excavated. Diameter of the mound, 15.0 metres; height 1.3 metres. This barrow is at the junction of two lynchets, one from the north-east, the other from the south-east. Since both lynchets run into the mound they are obviously of later date than the barrow. <3>

SY 7185 9492. Bowl barrow, 49ft diameter and 3ft high and somewhat spread situated 70 yds east of Laycock Dairy Farm. <4>

SY 7185 9491. Bowl barrow, in pasture and ploughed down. Diameter 16.0m, height 0.8m, no visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

Information from English Heritage Schedule Entry. <6>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow. The barrow is visible as an earthwork mound on aerial photographs. <7>

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

(SY 7185 9492) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 02-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<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.

'(45) Bowl (71859492), 70 yds. E. of Laycock Dairy Farm, is somewhat spread. Diam. 49 ft., ht. 3 ft.'

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 12-NOV-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> DCMS, 2000, Scheduled Monument Notification 2000, 14-Mar-00 (Scheduling record). SWX2721.

<7> 24-JAN-2005, NMR SY 7194/2-5 (23745/14-15,21-22) (Aerial Photograph). SDO10688.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454971 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 13 2024 11:43AM