Monument record MDO410 - Bowl Barrow in the Peverell Group, Bradford Peverell

Bronze Age bowl barrow, visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. In 1952 this monument was reported as 100 feet in diameter with a mound about 3 feet high. This or an adjacent barrow is thought to have been opened in 1881 by antiquarian Edward Cunnington, who found a contracted burial, a food vessel and flint implements.

Three bowl barrows east of Forty Acre Plantation. <3>

'B' - SY 66999190. Bowl barrow, about 100 ft diameter (sic) and 2-3 ft high. Presumably Cunnington's barrow No 10 opened in 1881 which contained a primary crouched inhumation, food vessel with handle and flint implements. A secondary or intrusive inhumation and a piece of Samian ware were found near the top (RCHM No 15f, Grinsell'sNo 23, 24a). 'B' is a bowl barrow 26.0m. diameter and 0.7m high. <4>

Beaker (Corpus No 171) from this barrow, listed by Clarke. In Dorset County Museum. <6>

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. <7>

Three bowl barrows, forming part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery associated with a Neolithic long barrow. <8>

Site of a Bronze Age barrow, visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The barrow is 27m across, has a berm between the outer ditch and barrow mound and appears to have a central pit. <9-10>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1916, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club for 1916, 42 (Serial). SDO25.

’10. Frome Whitfield. On right of road to Bradford Peverell, 1 mile from Farm. Skeleton and a piece of Samian pottery near top. Contracted burials lower. Food vessel, with handle. Flint implements, &c. Aug., 1881.’

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1927-38 (Map). SWX1540.

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

<3> 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). … (f), 100 yards S.E. of (e), is about 100 ft. in diam. and 3 ft. high. It is presumably Cunnington's No. 10, opened in 1881 and contained a contracted burial, a handled food-vessel and flint implements; at a higher level was a skeleton and a fragment of Samian.’

<4> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 04-SEP-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

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

‘Either 23 or 24 was Cunnington 10: primary crouched interment, food vessel with handle, and flint implements; secondary, or more likely intrusive, skeleton and piece of Samian ware near top. Dorset Proc xxxvii, 40-47; also (?) BAP I, 45 and pl. XXII, 298; PPS iv, 98-9 and fig. 23, no. 2.’

<6> Clarke, D L, 1970, Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland, 479 (Monograph). SDO18289.

<7> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 23-MAR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<8> English Heritage, Scheduled Monument revision, 24-NOV-2000 (Scheduling record). SDO18414.

<9> 26-APR-1989, NMR SY6791/3-4 (4306/04-5) (Aerial Photograph). SDO10869.

<10> 05-JUL-2004, NMR SY6791/43-48 (23540/32-37) (Aerial Photograph). SDO10868.

<11> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453384 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 10 2024 4:08PM