Monument record MDO413 - Bowl barrow east of Whitfield Barn, Bradford Peverell

A Bronze Age barrow, visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. In 1952 this monument was reported as 54 feet in diameter with a mound 11 feet high. It was opened in 1879 by Edward Cunnington, who found a contracted skeleton below ground level, other burnt remains, a beaker, potsherds and a small bronze dagger. A coin of Tetricus was found on the surface.

A bowl barrow, 54 ft diameter and 11 ft high situated east of Whitfield Barn was opened by E Cunnington in 1879 who discovered a contracted inhumation below ground level, other burnt remains, a beaker, potsherds and a small bronze dagger. A coin of Tetricus wasfound on the surface. <1> <3>

Badly mis-shapen bowl barrow, averaging 20.0 m diameter and 3.0 m high, covered with trees and shrub and much burrowed. The bronze dagger of Authy 2 was seen in Dorset County Museum. <4>

SY 67069147. Bowl barrow, 20 paces diameter and 12 ft high opened by Cunnington (No 8) who revealed a primary crouched adult inhumation (female) in a central grave beneath cairn and secondary deposits of six cremations, pottery and small bronze knife-dagger. A beaker is also said to have come from this barrow. <5>

Beaker (Corpus No 172) listed by Clarke. In Dorset County Museum Acc 1884.9.54. <6>

No change. See ground photograph. Revised at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <7>

A bowl barrow located 380 metres west of Whitfield Farm, and forming part of a group of eight similar barrows, which together form a dispersed round barrow cemetery associated with an earlier long barrow. No change. <8>

Site of a Bronze Age barrow, visible as earthworks on aerial photographs <9-10>. The barrow mound appears to be 23m across.

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1916, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club for 1916, 41-42 (Serial). SDO25.

‘8. Frome Whitfield. On left of road to Bradford Peverell 1½ miles from Dorchester. Contracted skeleton, below ground level. Other cremated remains, fragments of pottery. Small bronze dagger 2½ins. with rivets (Coin of Tetricus on surface). Aug., 1879.’

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

(SY 67069147) Tumulus (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West) (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(16) Bowl Barrow, ¼ m. W. of (7), is 54 ft. in diam. and 11 ft. high. This mound was opened by E. Cunnington in 1879 and found to contain a contracted skeleton below ground level, other burnt remains, a beaker, potsherds and a small bronze dagger. A coin of Tetricus was found on the surface (Dor. N.H. and Ant. F.C. xxxvii, 41, No. 8).’

<4> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 13-SEP-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

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

<5.1> Cunnington, E, 1915, Cunnington MSS (Unpublished document). SDO10110.

<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 10-APR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<8> DCMS, Scheduled Monument Notification EH Scheduled Monument Review, 24-NOV-2000 (Scheduling record). SWX2456.

<9> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1949, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 4260-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10872.

<10> 31-MAR-2003, NMR SY6691/18-20 (23022/22-24) (Aerial Photograph). SDO10871.

<11> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453379 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 6 2024 8:50PM