Monument record MDO378 - Bowl barrow near Hampton Lodge, Bradford Peverell

Bowl barrow, 60ft diameter, 2ft high, on the west border of Bradford Peverell parish. <2>

A grass and stubble covered ditchless bowl barrow. 17.5 metres north-south and 20.0 metres east-west. Height 1.0 metres. It appears
to have been pulled out to the east ? by ploughing. <3>

This barrow was 20 paces in diameter and 2 feet in height. <4>

A much ploughed down bowl barrow, 20.5 metres in diameter and 0.4 metres high. There is no sign of a ditch but evidence of an excavation trench across the mound from N.N.W. to S.S.E. Surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (See ground photograph). <6>

Site of a ploughed down Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as a low earthwork on aerial photographs, located 400m east of Hampton Plantation. <7>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1927-38 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 63599222) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 35 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(8) Bowl Barrow, on the W. border of the parish nearly 1½ m. W.S.W. of the church, is 60 ft. in diam. and 2 ft. high.’

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 11-SEP-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 94 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 722 (Index). SDO12304.

The barrow, in an area of mowing grass, appears to be completely ploughed out. The field is regularly ploughed. 1/7/E

<6> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 17-MAR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<7> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3266-68 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11177.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453747 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 26 2023 3:34PM