Monument record MDO379 - Long barrow near Red Barn, Bradford Peverell

A long barrow which in 1952 was described as being an earthwork around 120 feet long with no visible trace of ditches. The mound was about 18 feet wide at its widest point, and 3 feet high.

SY 63769234. A long barrow near Red Barn, orientated south-south-east/north-north-west is about 120ft long; the greatest width being towards the south-south-east where it measures 58ft andthe height 3ft. There are no remains of ditches. OS Map of Neolithic Wessex No.152. <1> <3>

A grass and tree-covered long barrow, 50.0m long, 21.0m wide and 1.4m high in the south east which is the higher end; the western
end merges gradually into the surrounding ground. <2>

SY 637923. Bradford Peverell Long Barrow 1 listed by Ashbee. <5>

A long barrow, 54.0 metres long and 15.5 metres across, of which the ENE side is a distinct slope 8.0 metres long and 1.2 metres high at the North end, fading to 0.4 metres at the south end. The other side, visible for only 26.0 metres, is an ill-defined slope about 3.0 metres long and 0.3 metres high. There are no side ditches.

The barrow, grass covered and in a thinned plantation, must have beenbulldozed to some extent. Its size bears no resemblance to former
records and the current plan is unlike that published on theOS 25" 1959, which depicts a broad south-east end. Surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 35 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(9) LONG BARROW, 220 yards N.E. of (8), is about 120 ft. long (347° mag.); the greatest width, towards the S.S.E., is 58 ft. where the height is 5 ft. There are no remains of ditches. (O.S. Map of Neolithic Wessex, No. 152.)’

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 11-SEP-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 77 (Monograph). SDO132.

'No visible ditches. Measured by RCHM.'

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 63759235) Long Barrow (NR)

<5> Ashbee, P, 1970, The Earthen Long Barrow in Britain, 161 (Monograph). SDO16712.

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 Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 17-MAR-81 (Unpublished document).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

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453734 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 26 2023 3:30PM