Monument record MDO3423 - Mound on Blagdon Hill, Winterbourne Steepleton

A mound is visible as a low earthwork on aerial photos. It was thought to be one of a group of potential Bronze Age barrows located on Blagdon Hill, now considered to be natural.

(Centred SY 621879). the 'Gaythorne Group' of barrows is situated on naturally hillocky heath, now largely arable, making it uncertain which rises are barrows. 'B' Almost certainly natural. <3-4>

'B' SY 62048799. A natural mound. Of this group of mounds only 'E' is certainly indentifiable now, as a barrow. 'A' and 'B' deleted from 1:2500 MSD. <5>

A mound, measuring approximately 15.5 metres in diameter, is visible as a low earthwork on aerial photographs <6> and was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Initially recorded as a possible Bronze Age barrow, one of a group of potential barrows located on Blagdon Hill (MDO3421-4 & MDO3376-9). Later field investigations considered it more likely to be natural in origin.

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

('B' - SY 62048799; Tumuli (NR)

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, 25-MAR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

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

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3 (Monograph). SDO150.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 15-FEB-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 4279-81 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11791.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452366 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 24 2024 2:11PM