Monument record MDO2786 - Barrows of the Southover Heath Group, Tolpuddle

One of nine round barrows that makes up the Southover Heath Group. Bowl barrow is 54 feet in diameter and 5½ feet high, and thickly overgrown. The barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of 1945 at Tolpuddle Ball.

(Centred at SY 8083 9476). Two round mounds, apparently barrows. <1>

(B: SY 8085 9475) A bowl barrow, 22 paces diameter 6ft high. <2>

B: surveyed at SY 8086 9475 has a diameter of 18.6 metres and a height of 1.5 metres with no surrounding ditch and no traces of mutilation. A fern-covered bowl barrow. There were no surface finds in the vicinity of these barrows. <3>

B: (16) SY 8087 9476. Bowl barrow, 54 ft diameter and 5 1/2 ft high, thickly overgrown. <5>

B: SY 8086 9476. No change. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

The barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of 1945 at Tolpuddle Ball. The barrow is sub-circular in shape and measures 11 m in diameter. <7> A second barrow is located 16 m to the south west (see MDO2785) and is probably associated with it. This feature was digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Crawford, O G S, Annotated record map 6 inch (Map). SWX7265.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 22-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(A: SY 8084 9476. B: 8086 9475) Tumuli (NR)

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 290 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(16) Bowl (80879476), 30 yds. N.E. of 915), is thickly overgrown. Diam. About 54 ft., ht. 5½ ft.'

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 12-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> Royal Air Force, 10-FEB-1945, RAF 106G/LA128 7133-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13630.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456168 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 24 2023 12:35PM