Monument record MDO3577 - Bowl Barrow, on Little Down, Blandford St Mary

A bowl barrow reported in 1970 as being around 24 feet in diameter with a mound about 6 inches high, and very heavily ploughed. The barrow mound is visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

A bowl barrow. Diameter 8 paces. Height 1 ft. Hollow in centre. <2>

A stubble covered bowl barrow on arable ground. There is no visible ditch; the mound has a diameter of 10.0m. and is 0.2m. high. Possibly excavated. <3>

The tumulus has now been ploughed over no evidence of it can be found on the ground. Deleted from Field Document. <4>

(ST 86120405) Tumulus (NR) (site of) (NAT). <5>

Bowl Barrow (86110404), on Little Down, on a spur at over 300 ft. O.D. is very heavily ploughed. Diam. 24 ft., ht. 6 ins. <6>

The barrow mound, 19m across, is visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery <10> and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1929 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 86120405) Tumulus

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 15-JUN-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 02-SEP-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2.1> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<4> Gossling, R B, 1961, Large Scale / Small Scale Map Revisers Comment LS 25 (R B Gossling 6.10.1961). (Unpublished document). SWX3692.

<5> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

<6> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 45 (Monograph). SDO146.

'(31) Bowl (86110404), on Little Down, on a spur at over 300 ft. O.D., is very heavily ploughed. Diam. 24 ft., ht. 6 ins.'

<7> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205623 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<10> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Jul 22 2024 12:16PM