Monument record MDO403 - Bowl barrow on Bradford Down, Bradford Peverell

Site of a probable Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. It is on of several barrows located along the ridgeway at Bradford Down.

A bowl barrow ('A'), 55ft diameter and 5ft high ... situated on Bradford Down.<2>

'A' - Bowl Barrow, 16.0 metres diameter north-south and 1.4 metres high cut by a north-south hedge. The western portion of the barrow
has been sheered away exposing flints and the eastern portion is scrubcovered. <3>

'A' and 'B' both listed as bowl barrows by Grinsell. <4>

SY 649909. Round barrow south of Three-cornered Plantation. Scheduled. <5>

Both these barrows have been completely ploughed out; deleted from M.S.D. <6>

Site of a probable Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. It is on of several barrows located along the ridgeway at Bradford Down. <3>

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

('A' - SY 64919095; 'B' - SY 65129093) Tumulus (NR) (twice)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 36 (Monograph). SDO97.

'On Bradford Down, about 1.5m S.S.W of the church, one of three. Bowl Barrow, 55ft. in diam and 5ft. high.'

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 Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 13-SEP-54 (Unpublished document).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

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

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 02-MAR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<8> 10-JAN-2007, NMR SY 6490/12 (24506/34) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11155.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453776 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 26 2023 3:09PM