Monument record MDO3745 - Round Barrow, Compton Down, Compton Abbas

An almost completely ploughed out Bronze Age round barrow on Compton Down. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water

Compton Down. 15 paces in diameter and 1ft high OS Arch (NV Quinell) 23 Jan 1956: almost ploughed out by 1978. <3>

ST 88241908 A grass covered mound with no visible ditch, measuring 14.0m in diameter and 0.3m in height. It is probably a bowl barrow. (Scheduled as a round barrow). <1>

ST 88241910 This probable bowl barrow has been almost completely destroyed by ploughing. All that now remains is a slight barely perceptible ground swelling of dark flinty soil, some 12.0m in diameter. A slight soil mark is visible at this position on OS air photographs <2.1>. Sited on 1:2500 AM for AO Records only. <2>

<1> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 23-JAN-56 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2> Barrett, G, Various, Field Investigators Comments GB, F2 GB 12-JAN-78 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

<2.1> Ordnance Survey, 6.6.75, OS 75/371 142 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17853.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 37 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<4> Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1986, Dorset Barrow Survey (Index). SDO134.

'Visible as a vague swelling in a field regularly ploughed and newly ploughed and planted with grass when visited. Almost ploughed out.'

<5> Hearne, C M, 1987, Wytch Farm Oilfield Development B1 Soil Deposition Area Archaeological Assessment (Unpublished document). SDO143.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205892 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 21 2022 8:53AM