Monument record MDO380 - Bowl barrow east of Red Barn, Bradford Peverell

Two bowl barrows situated east of Red Barn. The more northerly ('A') is 60ft diameter and 3ft high and the second, 25 yards to the south east, is 34ft diameter and 1 1/2ft high. <2>

'B' - Destroyed barrow indicated by a circle of chalk and flint, 20.0m diameter. No surface finds. <3>

This barrow was 20 paces in diameter and 3 feet in height. <4>

SY 643922. Round barrow east of Red Barn. Scheduled. <5>

'A'. SY 64319221. Now destroyed and visible as a chalk patch approximately 18.0 metres in diameter. This is visible on the O.S. air photograph. (a) encompassed by a 3.0 metres wide band of dark soil evidently representing a ditch (see plan). The barrow is described as "Tumulus (site of)" on the O.S. 25" 1959 but with no siting depiction.

It is presumably the barrow scheduled in the 1977 list, though it had been destroyed by 1954, according to authority 3. Note that this authority has transposed 'A' and 'B'. <6>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as cropmarks and an earthwork on aerial photographs. Now destroyed and visible as a chalk patch approximately 18m in diameter and encompassed by a 3m wide band of dark soil evidently representing a ditch. <7-9>

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

('A' - SY 64319221; 'B' - SY 64319219) Tumuli (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.

‘(10) BOWL BARROWS, two, E. of Red Barn and 770 yards E. of (8). The more northerly is 60 ft. in diam. and 3 ft. high. The second, 25 yards to the S.E., is 34 ft. in diam. and 1½ ft. high.’

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 13-SEP-1954 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

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

<5> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 61 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<6> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 16-MAR-1981 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<7> 19-JUL-2002, NMR SY 6492/17 (21709/12) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11180.

<8> 15-SEP-1979, NMR OS/79123 292-94 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11179.

<9> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3137-39 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11178.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453781 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 31 2023 2:26PM