Monument record MDO2610 - Bowl barrow on East Hill, Sydling St Nicholas

One of a group of four bowl barrows on East Hill. In 1952 this monument was reported as being around 27 feet in diameter with a mound about 1½ feet high. The barrow is visible as a low mound around 11.5 m in diameter on a 1995 aerial photograph and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Bowl barrows on East Hill: … 'c', 50 yards NNW of 'b' is 27ft in diameter and 1 1/2ft high. <2>

Grinsell omits 'c', but lists a barrow 10 paces in diameter by 2 1/2ft high at ST 62280240. <3>

A group of three bowl barrows, situated on the flat top of a south eastern spur. All are much reduced by ploughing, with no evidence of ditches. … 'c' ST 62120248. A grass-covered bowl barrow 10.0m in diameter and 0.5m high.

At the reference given by Grinsell <3> there are no surface indications of a barrow but it seems fairly certain that this is 'c'. Revised at 1:2500. <4>

One of a group of four bowl barrows on East Hill. In 1952 this monument was reported as being around 27 feet in diameter with a mound about 1½ feet high. The barrow is visible as a low mound around 11.5 m in diameter on a 1995 aerial photograph and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project <5>. The feature is still faintly visible as an earthwork on current Google Earth imagery.

Simons, M A, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments: note on old Dorset SMR card (Verbal communication). SDO17553.

‘All visited 7/6/83. All ploughed and under a crop of winter wheat. … 28C. Still about 1-1½ ft high without disturbance.’

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1891 (Map). SWX1540.

('a' ST 62220242; 'b' ST 62160244; 'c' ST 62130248) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 236 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(28) BOWL BARROWS, on East Hill over 2 m. N.N.W. of the church, are four in number. … (c), 50 yards N.N.W. of (b), is 27 ft. in diam. and 1½ ft. high.’

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 133 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F1 NJA 28-SEP-76 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 13-MAR-95, OS 95033 V 074 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17059.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 199195 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 30 2024 10:50AM