Monument record MDO2788 - Bowl barrow, one of the Southover Heath Group,Tolpuddle

One of a group of nine barrows known as the Southover Heath Group. In 1970 it was reported that this monument was ploughed almost flat. This barrow is visible as a low mound 14m across on lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM.

'B' Bowl barrow, 16.0m diameter and 0.6m high with no surrounding ditch, but much ploughed and spread. <2>

'B' (18) SY 80699547 Bowl barrow, 25 yds south east of 'A' is now ploughed almost flat. <3-4>

'B'. SY 80689546. Barrow as described, almost ploughed out (height 0.3 metres). Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

This barrow is visible as a low mound 14m across on lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM. [7]

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

('A' SY 80669547; 'B' SY 80689546) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 18-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 137 (Monograph). SDO132.

<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.

'(18) Bowl (80699547), 25 yds. S.E. of (17), is now ploughed almost flat.'

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 19-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456005 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<7> Environment Agency, 15-DEC-2023, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO20691.

Record last edited

Nov 1 2024 1:57PM