Monument record MDO4007 - Barrow on Ibberton Hill, Ibberton

A bowl barrow on Ibberton Hill, 250 metres south of Baker's Folly. The barrow has a mound 1 metre high and 17 metres in diameter. It is now slightly elongated due to erosion caused by a track which clips its eastern edge. A small depression in the centre of the mound suggests partial excavation. Surrounding the mound is a quarry ditch which has become infilled over the years and now survives as a buried feature 2 metres wide. A sub-oval mound with a hollow centre on Ibberton Hill, Ibberton, is visible as a 17m by 15m earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery. No outer ditch was clearly identifiable. The feature might be a Bronze Age bowl barrow and was digitally recorded during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

(ST 79190722) Bowl Barrow. 15 paces diameter by 3ft. high. Hollow in centre. On Ibberton Hill. (2)

A grass covered mound with no visible ditch. The mound has a NW-SE diameter of 15.0m., and a NE-SW diameter of 17.0m. and an average height of 1.0m. Modern tracks on the NW and SE sides have tended to elongate this mound, which has the appearance of a bowl barrow. There is a small depression in the centre. (3)

ST 79200723. Barrow ?. 54ft. diameter south west - north east and 3 1/2ft. high is now roughly D-shaped in plan, probably owing to destruction by a trackway on the south-east. There appears to have been digging at the centre. (4)

ST 793072. Round barrow on Ibberton Hill. (5)

A sub-oval mound with a hollow centre on Ibberton Hill, Ibberton, is visible as a 17m by 15m earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery (RAF 1945; RAF 1948; EA 2018). No outer ditch was clearly identifiable. The feature might be a Bronze Age bowl barrow and was digitally recorded during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 4338 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21687.

Royal Air Force, 27-MAR-1945, RAF/106G/LA200 FS 2068 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21689.

Environment Agency, xx-xxx-2018, Environment Agency National Lidar Programme DTM 1M (Aerial Photograph). SDO21483.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 79190722) Tumulus

<2> Rigg, J, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments JR, F1 JR 16-JUN-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<2.1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 16-AUG-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 125 (Monograph). SDO146.

<5> 1978, List of ancient monuments in England: Volume 1, Northern England; Volume 2, Southern England; Volume 3, East Anglia and the Midlands Vol 2, 65 (Monograph). SWX2557.

<6> DCMS, 1999, Scheduled Monument Notification 1999, 16-APR-1999 (Scheduling record). SDO17351.

<7> Historic England, National Record of the Historic Environment, 201736 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 18 2026 1:17PM