Monument record MDO34 - Barrow on Wears Hill, Abbotsbury

'A'. Bowl barrow; diameter 17 paces, height 6 ft. <2>

Bowl barrow; diameter 45ft, height 7ft. <3>

'A' A grass covered bowl barrow, diameter 14.0m, height 1.6m. The mound has been dug into from the east and there is no
trace of a ditch. <4>

'A' - SY 57528612. Abbotsbury 2. Bowl barrow listed, details as Authy 2. <5>

SY 575863. Group of five round barrows on White Hill. Scheduled. <6>

A barrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs at SY5751286133. It was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project. <9-10>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

'A' (SY 57518613) Tumulus (NR)

<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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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), 11 (Monograph). SDO97.

'BARROWS, on or near the ridgeway running along Wears Hill and White Hill on the N. side of the parish, form three groups. ... The third group consists of six barrows; (a), nearly 1¼ m. E. of Abbotsbury Castle, is 45 ft. in diam. and 7 ft. high; …'

<4> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 24-MAR-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 85 (Monograph). SDO132.

<6> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2) (Monograph). SWX1687.

<7> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 47 (Index). SDO12304.

Mound within a field of permanent pasture. 1/2/C

<8> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<9> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3287-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11634.

<10> 06-DEC-2006, NMR SY 5786/15-16 (NMR 24500/39-40) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11635.

<11> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450368 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 6 2023 4:42PM