Monument record MDO2611 - 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 30 feet in diameter with a mound about three feet high.

A bowl barrow, hollow in the centre, 13 paces in diameter and 3 feet high. <1> <3>

Ditchless, mutilated bowl barrow severely damaged by ploughing. <2>

A grass covered flint and earth bowl barrow, 12.0m in diameter, 0.2m high, with faint traces of a ditch on the west side. It has been greatly reduced by ploughing. Surveyed at 1:2500. <5>

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. … 28D. Appears to have been spread by cultivation over the years. Now about 1ft high.’

<1> 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. ... (d), 200 yards N.W. of (c), is 30 ft. in diam. and 3 ft. high.’

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 14-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 55 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1962 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 61980264) Tumulus (NR)

<5> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 28-SEP-76 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 199190 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 16 2025 6:33PM