Monument record MDO408 - Bowl Barrow in the Peverell Group, Bradford Peverell

Three bowl barrows east of Forty Acre Plantation. <2>

'A' - SY 66899195. Bowl barrow, 81 ft diameter and 1 ft high. (RCHM No 15d; Grinsell's No 25). 'A' and 'C' are ditchless bowl barrows, both 21.5m diameter and 0.5m. High. 'B' is a bowl barrow 26.0m. Diameter and 0.7m high. <3>

Beaker (Corpus No 171) from this barrow, listed by Clarke. In Dorset County Museum. <5>

All the bowl barrows are now ploughed. 'A' measures 21.2 metres in diameter and 0.4 metres high. 'B' is 29.5 metres in diameter and 1.6 metres high on the lower south-east side, and 'C' measures 28.0 metres in diameter and 1.2 metres high on its lower side. (See ground photograph). Revised at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

Three bowl barrows, forming part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery associated with a Neolithic long barrow.<7>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow, visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The barrow is visible as a ring ditch, 19m across. <8>

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

(Centred SY 669919) Tumuli (NR) three shown.

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

‘(15) Barrows, to the N. and E. of Forty Acre Plantation 1 m. S.E. of the church, are eight in number; some of them were opened by E. Cunnington 1879–87 (Dor. N.H. and Ant. F.C. xxxvii, p. 41). … (d), 290 yards E.N.E. of (c) and just N.E. of the road, is 81 ft. in diam. and 1 ft. high. ‘

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 04-SEP-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

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

<5> Clarke, D L, 1970, Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland, 479 (Monograph). SDO18289.

<6> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 23-MAR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<7> English Heritage, Scheduled Monument revision, 24-NOV-2000 (Scheduling record). SDO18414.

<8> 08-JUL-1976, NMR SY6692/5/6 (JRB 3303) (Aerial Photograph). SDO10867.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453384 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 10 2024 4:08PM