Monument record MDO2734 - Bowl barrow on Whitesheet Hill, Toller Fratrum

The site of a 'Tumulus' is marked on the Ordnance Survey 1st edition map on Whitesheet Hill. A low mound, 11m across, is visible at this location on lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project.

A low mound, 11m across, is visible at this location on lidar imagery <5> and was digitally plotted during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project.

A bowl barrow. Diameter 14 paces, height 1 1/2ft. <2-3>

A grass covered bowl barrow with a flat top and slightly sunken centre. Diameter 16.0m. Height 0.8m. No ditch. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

[SY 58389821] TUMULUS [OE]

<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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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), 251 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(4) BOWL BARROW, on the N. edge of the parish 1,050 yards N.E. of the church, is 40 ft. in diam and 1½ft. high.'

<4> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 17-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<5> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2019, LIDAR Environment Agency Composite LAST RETURN (Photograph). SDO16524.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450668 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 22 2024 3:05PM