Monument record MDO23 - Barrow south of Chapel Coppice, Abbotsbury

A barrow recorded by the RCHME as 16ft in diameter and 1½ feet high. (Not listed by L V Grinsell, Dorset Barrows Mss 1934-55). <1>

SY 57378432. a grass covered, ditchless mound. 6.5m diameter and 0.4m high, situated at the foot of a steep hill. This mound has the form of a bowl barrow and although small it probably is one. <2>

SY 57378432. Abbotsbury 22. Listed as a bowl barrow 7 paces diameter and 1 1/2 ft high, with reference to OS record. <3>

SY 575843. Round barrow 250 yards south of Chapel Coppice. Scheduled. (See illus.). (4)

The feature is visible as a very slight earthwork on Lidar imagery taken in 2006 <5> and was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 11 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(34) BARROW, 1,050 yards S.S.W. of the church, is about 16 ft. in diam. and 1½ ft. high.’

<2> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 23-MAR-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 32 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<4> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 59 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<5> 31-OCT-2006, D0067836 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12191.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450558 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 27 2023 9:59AM