Monument record MDO3435 - Bowl barrow, Moreton

A mound interpreted as a probable bowl barrow, now ploughed almost flat. This monument is thought to be one of two barrows in the 'neighbourhood of Woodsford' investigated by the antiquarian Charles Warne, who found a number of urns in each mound. The site of barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs of 1947.

A mound interpreted as a probable bowl barrow, now ploughed almost flat. This monument is thought to be one of two barrows in the 'neighbourhood of Woodsford' investigated by the antiquarian Charles Warne, who found a number of urns in each mound. (1)

Fragments of crushed globular urn in the Dorset County Museum are from Woodsford 6 or 7 (Grinsell 1959).

The site of Bronze Age barrow described above in (1) is visible as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs of 1947. The ring ditch measures 31 m in diameter. (2) A second ring ditch is located 22 m to the east (see MDO3436). This site was digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 158 (Monograph). SDO132.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 620 (Monograph). SDO150.

'Only two probable barrows are known and they are likely to be the mounds dug into by Warne in the 'neighbourhood of Woodsford'. Both are now almost ploughed flat, though showing as soil-marks on V.A.P. CPE/UK 1934: 5074. In one, barely 2 ft. high, were twelve urns, both upright and inverted; three or four were decorated. The other contained four urns immediately below the surface.
(6) Bowl (?) (SY 78 NE; 77488949) on gentle slope to S. and E. about 140 ft. above O.D.'

<2> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/2018 4020-21 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13772.

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