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.

(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)

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

(ST 79190722) Tumulus

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 16-JUN-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

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

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 16-AUG-55 (Unpublished document).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> National Record of the Historic Environment, 201736 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 7 2024 10:55AM