Monument record MDO402 - Bowl barrow on Bradford Down, Bradford Peverell

Bowl barrow, 34ft. diameter, 1'6" high, and disturbed in the centre, situated on Bradford Down. <2-3>

On Bradford Down, about 1.5m S.S.W of the church, one of three. Bowl barrow, 34ft. in diam and 1.5ft. high. <3>

Under high crops and not investigated. <4>

Disturbed in the centre. <5>

SY 64719066. Bowl barrow, diameter 14.0 metres approximately, height 0.3 metres, very much ploughed down. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

Site of a possible Bronze Age bowl barrow, disturbed in the centre, is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. <8>

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

(SY 64719066) Tumulus (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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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), 36 (Monograph). SDO97.

<4> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 11-SEP-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 96 (Monograph). SDO132.

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 20-APR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 318 (Index). SDO12304.

<8> Royal Air Force, 09-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 4071-73 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11140.

<9> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453771 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 16 2023 3:42PM