Monument record MDO38 - Barrow on Wears Hill, Abbotsbury

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, one of a group running along Wears Hill. In 1952 this monument was reported as around 25 feet in diameter with a mound about 6 inches high. Grinsell (1959) recorded this barrow as 14 paces in diameter and 2 feet in height.

'B', 'C' and 'D'. Bowl barrows from 13 to 15 paces in diameter and from 2 to 21/2 ft high. <2>

Similar information. <3>

'B', 'C' and 'D'. Three grass covered ditchless bowl barrows with diameters from 12.0m-19.0m and heights from 0.7m - 1.2m. <4>

Abbotsbury 1,3,4 and 5. Bowl barrows listed, information as Authy 2. <5>

SY 575863. Group of five round barrows on White Hill. Scheduled. <6>

A barrow is visible as cropmarks and low earthworks on aerial photographs at SY5752086352. It was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project. <9-11>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

('A' - SY 57478633; 'B' - SY 57538634; 'C' - SY 57628633; 'D' - SY 57608627). Tumuli (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> 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; ... (e), 220 yards N. of (a), is 25 ft. in diam. and 6 in. high; ...'

<4> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 24-MAR-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 85 (Monograph). SDO132.

<6> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 59 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<7> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 43 (Index). SDO12304.

Mound reduced and spread by ploughing. 1/5/D

<8> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<9> 2002, DCC SY5786 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11638.

<10> 06-DEC-2006, NMR SY 5786/2-5 (24500/26-29) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11637.

<11> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1072-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11631.

<12> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450365 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 23 2024 5:12PM