Monument record MDO24232 - Mound, Bexington Coppice, Abbotsbury

A mound 60 paces in diameter and 12ft high, probably natural. <2>

Perhaps natural. <3>

A large, near circular, grass covered mound. 56.0m diameter, 3.5m high. This feature is a natural mound, probably gravel outcrop. Such mounds are common in this locality. No traces of a ditch and the slopes of the mound flow into the surrounding ground too evenly to be considered a barrow of such dimensions. <4>

SY 55908598. Abbotsbury 17. Details as Authy 2. <5>

A large mound, probably a natural feature although marked as a barrow on the OS 1st Edition Map. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project <6-7>.

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

(SY 55908599) Tumulus (NR)

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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 11 (Monograph). SDO97.

<4> Field Investigators comments, F1 GHS 21-MAR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO17889.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

<6> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3285-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11724.

<7> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 4123-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10756.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450356 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 29 2025 5:05PM