Monument record MDO2217 - Robin's Barrow, Puddletown

A bowl barrow. In 1970 this barrow was recorded as being 47 feet in diameter with a mound 4½ feet high. The barrow has been damaged by the insertion of a water tank.

Tumulus located and surveyed. <2>

SY 7241 9462. Robin's Barrow, a bowl barrow 14 paces diameter and 1ft high, apparently almost entirely removed for a water tank since 1939. <3>

SY 7241 9463. Robin's Barrow, a bowl barrow formerly 47ft diameter and 4 1/2 ft high, has been severely mutilated by the insertion of a water tank, and its outline is very irregular. <4>

SY 7241 9462. Robin's Barrow (name not confirmed); a low mound of stones 16.0m, in diameter and 0.2m high. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <5>

No remains observable in 1985. <6>

The water tank has now been removed. The site is considered to be of low archaeological potential and is not recommended for scheduling. Ground photo with archive report. <7>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow. A small low earthwork mound is visible in the vicinity on aerial photographs taken in 1948. <8>

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

(SY 7241 9463). Robin's Barrow (Tumulus) (NR)

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Large Scale/Small Scale Map Reviser's comments, LS 25" (W C Dinent, 20.5.58) (Verbal communication). SDO19451.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 128 (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.

'(47) Robin's Barrow, bowl (72419463), 680 yds. E.N.E. of (46), lies at the E. end of the ridge with a steep slope on the N. It has been severely mutilated by the insertion of a water tank and its outline is very irregular. Diam. 47 ft., ht.4½ ft. (formerly).'

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 12-NOV-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1986, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1985, 156 (Serial). SDO85.

<7> English Heritage, English Heritage Alternative Action Report, MPPA, 12-Apr-1999 (Scheduling record). SDO18279.

<8> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 4124-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10692.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454976 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 28 2023 6:35AM