Monument record MDO2223 - Bowl barrow on Puddletown Down, Puddletown

Bowl barrow, much spread by ploughing. 64ft. in diam and 1ft. high. The site is visible as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cern and Piddle AIM Project. Traces of an internal mound are visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery.

Four large bowl barrows, three located as above, and a fourth barrow ('D') at SY 75409738. <3>

Four grass covered bowl barrows are situated as above, except that (A) is at SY 75389736. They show no evidence of ditches or excavations, and range from 17 to 25 metres in diameter by 0.6 to 1.6 metres in height. 'C' is surmounted by a trig pillar. <4>

Three round barrows in line on Puddletown Down: (B) Bowl (75269745), 75 yds SE of (A) is much spread by ploughing. Diam 64ft ht 1ft. <6>

Barrows (A) and (B) clearly visible on air photograph. <7>

'B' SY 75269746. Bowl barrow, diameter 18.0m., approximately, height 0.4m. All the barrows are in arable and have been ploughed over; none has a visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <8>

the site is visible as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cern and Piddle AIM Project. Traces of an internal mound are visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery <10-11>.

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

('A' - SY 75209748; 'B' - SY 75259745; 'C' - SY 75349741) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 05-OCT-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<4> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F2 GCS 01-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1964 (Map). SWX1197.

(SY752974) Tumuli (NR) (Four)

<6> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 231 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(53) Bowl (75269745), 75 yds. S.E. of (52), is much spread by ploughing. Diam. 64 ft., ht. 1 ft.'

<7> Boyden, J R, 4-MAR-1973, Boyden Flight 64 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17713.

<8> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F3 JGB 20-OCT-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454481 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<10> National Monuments Record, 30-MAR-1982, NMR 2110/1340 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20860.

<11> Environment Agency, 15-DEC-2023, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO20691.

Record last edited

Aug 10 2024 7:31PM