Monument record MDO35 - Barrow on Wears Hill, Abbotsbury

'B'. Probably a barrow; 22 yds east of 'A'. Diameter 20ft, height 1½ ft. <1>

'B'. SY 57538614. A doubtful bowl barrow. The mound, near circular in shape, is 7.0m in diameter and 0.7m high taken to
the east. Situated in much disturbed ground. No trace of a ditch. <2>

Grinsell recorded this barrow as 17 paces in diameter and 1½ feet in height. <3>

<1> 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; ... (b), probably a barrow, 22 yards E. of (a), is 20 ft. in diam. and 1½ ft. high; ...'

<2> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 24-MAR-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

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

<4> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 46 (Index). SDO12304.

Mound within a field of permanent pasture. 7/5/D

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450368 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 6 2023 4:46PM