Monument record MDO2224 - Bowl barrow on Puddletown Down, Puddletown

Bowl barrow, 79ft. in diam and 3ft. 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: (C) Bowl (75349742) lies 180 yds SE of (B). Diam 79ft, ht 3ft. <6>

'C' SY 75349742. Bowl barrow, diameter 25.0m., height 1.5m., surmounted by trig pillar. 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. <7>

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. <9-10>

<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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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 Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 05-OCT-54 (Unpublished document).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 Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F2 GCS 01-DEC-54 (Unpublished document).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.

'(54) Bowl (75349742) lies 180 yds. S.E. of (53). Diam. 79 ft., ht. 3 ft.'

<7> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F3 JGB 20-OCT-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454481 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<9> National Monuments Record, 30-MAR-1982, NMR 2110/1340 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20860.

<10> Environment Agency, 15-DEC-2023, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO20691.

Record last edited

Aug 10 2024 7:32PM