Monument record MDO3491 - Bowl barrow south of Tinker's Barrow Plantation, Crossways

A bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was recorded as around 51 feet in diameter with a mound 5 feet high. The barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery.

A tree-covered bowl barrow, 51ft diameter and 5ft high situated south of Tinker's Barrow. <1,3>

Bowl-barrow, grass-covered; trees now removed. Condition good. Diameter 16.5m, height 1.2m. Slight vestige of an outer ditch in SW quadrant. Published Survey (1:2500) revised on MSD. <4>

The Bronze Age barrow described in <3> is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery. The barrow is sub-circular and surrounded by a narrow ditch. The barrow is sub-oval in shape and measures 21 m by 17 m. <5> This site was digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 122 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 77868758) Tumulus (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 447 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘There are twelve barrows. Two, unidentified, ‘one on the downs and one on the heath’, were opened in the 1890s. Both contained at least one inurned cremation, and from one came two urns, now in D.C.M. (Dorset Procs. XVII (1896), xxv-xxvi; XXIX (1908), 136-7; XXX (1909), xlviii.) … (30) Bowl (SY 78 NE; 77878759). Diam. 51 ft., ht. 5 ft. Tree-covered.’

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 02-DEC-79 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DSM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13147.

<6> Historic England, Historic England Archive, RCH01/093 (Index). SDO14738.

RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) A collection of archive relating to the Dorset inventory Volume Dorset II (South East). The archive consists of a wide range of material including original field notes, surveys, profiles, photographs and negatives, measured drawings, and publication proofs, and correspondence.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453885 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 4 2024 10:34AM