Monument record MDO2783 - Bowl barrow, one of the Southover Heath Group, Tolpuddle

One of nine round barrows that make up the Southover Heath Group. This monument is a bowl barrow and in 1970 was reported as 37 feet in diameter with a mound about 4.5 feet high. The barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery of 2010.

Five tree or fern-covered round barrows on Southover Heath with no traces of ditch and mainly free from mutilation. 'D' - Bowl barrow, 12.0m diameter and 1.4m high. <1>

'D' - (13) - SY 78059284. Bowl barrow, 37ft diameter and 41/2ft high lies in an area of former heathland that has now been cleared. Grinsell refers to this barrow as 12 paces diameter x 4ft high. <2> <4>

"SY 779929 Group of four round barrows on Sothover Heath Scheduled". <5>

'D' SY 78049284, ploughed down; diameter approximately 12.0m., height 0.5m. None of the barrows C - E has a visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

The barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery of 2010 <7>. It is sub-circular in shape and measures 10 m in diameter. This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project

<1> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, 23/09/1952 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 137 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

('C' - SY 77939286; 'D' - SY 78049284; 'E' - SY 78049294) Tumulus (NR)

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 290 (Monograph). SDO136.

(13) Bowl (78059284), 130 yds. E.S.E. of (12), lies in an area of former heathland that has now been cleared. Diam. about 37 ft., ht. 4½ ft.

<5> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 70 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, 23/01/1981 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454863 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 7 2024 2:18PM