Monument record MDO4196 - Bowl barrow, Langton Long Blandford

Bronze Age bowl barrow. This may be the barrow in which several urns were found in 1840. In 1972 this monument was reported as being approximately 30 feet in diameter, with a mound standing some 3 feet high. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water. The barrow is visible as an earthwork on Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM Project.

Grinsell <1> records that two urns (nos 22 and 23, the latter with 4 cord loop-holes, in Durden catalogue) were found with several others in a barrow 3 feet high about 100 yards from Buzbury Camp in 1840. Probably this barrow.

ST 91790613 Bowl barrow in Buzbury Plantation is probably the barrow in which several urns were found in 1840 (Durden Catalogue, 18). It is 30 feet in diameter and 3 feet high. <2>

The barrow is visible as an earthwork on Environment Agency lidar imagery <4> and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 116 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 45 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(13) Bowl (91790613), in Buzbury Plantation, 350 ft. above O.D., probably is the barrow in which several urns were found in 1840 (Durden Catalogue, 18). Diam. 30 ft., ht. 3 ft.'

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1976 (Map). SDO17396.

(ST 91790613) Tumulus (NR)

<4> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209344 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 23 2023 4:12PM