Monument record MDO2646 - Bowl barrow, Sydling St Nicholas

('A' - SY 64019833). A mound, probably a barrow, circa 14 yards diameter and 3ft high is situated about 220 yards south of Shearplace Hill settlement. <1>

('B'-SY 64029833) A mound, probably a barrow, circa 7 yards diameter and 1ft high situated about 10 yards east of mound 'A'. <2>

One of the two mounds situated south of Shearplace Hill settlement consisted wholly of flints and had been mostly destroyed. A small trench dug across the other mound showed the profile to be of ploughsoil over clay-with-flints. Mound 'A' has been destroyed and Mound 'B' ploughed out. <3>

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

<2> Rahtz, P A and ApSimon, A M, 1962, Excavations at Shearplace Hill, Sydling St Nicholas, Dorset, England; Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 28 (Article in serial). SDO15294.

<3> Waggott, Thomas Pilling, Field Investigators comments TPW, F1 TPW 13-JAN-71 (Unpublished document). SDO17968.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453165 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 21 2023 4:11PM