Monument record MDO2489 - Bell barrow west of Fidler's Green, Stinsford

A Bronze Age bell barrow. The barrow mound is visible on aerial photographs. In 1970 this monument was recorded as being a mound about 58 feet in diameter and 4 feet high, surrounded by a flat area or berm about 7 feet wide, with a ditch around 13 feet across outside it. The centre of the mound has been disturbed, presumably by antiquarian investigation.

SY 70569408. A bell barrow, 20.0m diameter with berm 2.5m wide and surrounding ditch averaging 4.0m wide and 0.2m deep. <2>

SY 70579408. Bell? barrow to the west of Fidler's Green consists of a mound 58ft diameter and 4ft high which appears to
be surrounded by a narrow sloping berm 7ft wide and a ditch 13 1/2ft wide and about 6 ins deep. <3-4>

SY 705941. Round barrow at Fiddler's Green. Scheduled. <5>

SY 70569408: Bell barrow generally as described but with berm and ditch much reduced by ploughing. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

Site of a Bronze Age bell barrow. The barrow mound is visible on aerial photographs. <7>

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

(SY 70569408) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 02-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 164 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 257 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(14) Bell ? (70579408), 65 yds. W. of Fidler's Green, lies on a gentle N.E. slope just over 300 ft. above O.D. The centre of the mound has been dug into and its base has been disturbed; it appears to be surrounded by a narrow sloping berm. Diam. of mound 58 ft., ht. 4 ft.; width of berm 7 ft.; width of ditch 13½ ft., depth about ½ ft.'

<5> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 69 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 12-NOV-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> 25-JAN-2005, NMR SY 7094/10-13 (23745/26-29) (Aerial Photograph). SDO10673.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455048 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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