Monument record MDO382 - Bowl barrow north west of Penn Hill, Bradford Peverell

Site of a probable Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as cropmarks/soilmarks on aerial photographs. One of three ploughed out barrow mounds located on a spur north-west of Penn Hill. This may be the barrow near Muckleford in which a burial with bronze dagger and a pin, and covered by a huge stone slab, was found by antiquarians.

Listed as bowl barrows by Grinsell. Three grass-covered ditchless bowl barrows ranging from 20.0m to 23.0m diameter and 0.4m to 0.8m high. <3>

This barrow was 19 paces in diameter and 1/2 a foot in height. <4>

Three mounds, probably bowl barrows, on a spur north-west of Penn Hill. The northermost ('A') is 56ft diameter and 6ins high; the second ('B'), 30 yards to the south-east is 58ft diameter and 9ins high; the third ('C'), 70 yards south of ('A') is 50ft diameter and 9ins high. <5>

SY 645929 Three round barrows north of Penn Hill. Scheduled. (See SY 69 SW 71 for probable excavation of these barrows). <6>

These three barrows have been completely ploughed out; deleted from M.S.D. <7>

Site of a probable Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as cropmarks/soilmarks on aerial photographs. One of three ploughed out barrow mounds located on a spur north-west of Penn Hill. <8-11>

<1> Warne, C, 1866, The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866) (Monograph). SWX8166.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1927-38 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 645929) Tumuli (NR) (three shown)

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 13-SEP-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 96 (Monograph). SDO132.

‘In a barrow near Muckleford (prob. One of 5-7), was a primary (?) interment with bronze knife-dagger with 3 rivets, and a pin, possibly the LBA pin of Central European type figured in BM Guide, Later Prehistoric Antiquities, 1953, Fig. 13, no. 11; the interment was govered by a massive stone slab which took 6 horses to remove. CTD (tovp), no. 61.’

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 35 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(11) Mounds, probably bowl barrows, on a spur N.W. of Penn Hill and ¾ m. W. of the church, are three in number. The northernmost (a) is 56 ft. in diam. and ½ ft. high; the second (b), 30 yards to the S.E., is 58 ft. in diam. and ¾ ft. high; the third (c), 70 yards S. of (a), is 50 ft. in diam. and ¾ ft. high.’

<6> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 61 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<7> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 02-MAR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<8> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3137-39 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11178.

<9> 05-MAY-1989, NMR OS/89137 523-25 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11185.

<10> 29-OCT-1997, NMR SY 6492/6 (15847/14) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11186.

<11> 1997, DCC 30-0099 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11184.

<12> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453791 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 13 2024 7:11AM