Monument record MDO42458 - Bronze Age bowl barrow, Wraxall

A Bronze Age bowl barrow to the southwest of Wraxall Wood. The site was digitally plotted from lidar imagery during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project. Summary from record MDO3448: A mound interpreted as the probable remains of a barrow. In 1952 this monument was reported as being around 55 feet in diameter with a mound about two feet high.

[ST 5606 0022] TUMULUS [OE] (1)

A bowl barrow on arable land. Diameter 18 paces, height 2ft. (2) Probably the remains of a barrow, much denuded. (3)

A grass covered ditchless bowl barrow in a ploughed field, but not ploughed over. The barrow is 18.0m. in diameter and 0.7 m. high. (4)

This bowl barrow has had its perimeter cut into and "squared off" since 1955. Otherwise unchanged. O.S. 1/2500 survey revised. (5)

ST 560002, Round barrow, north-west of Higher Barn, scheduled. It was 4' high and 75' in diameter when visited in June 1959. (6)

Badly denuded bowl barrow situated on arable. 15m in diameter, on north - south axis; 15-16m on east - west axis. The mound stands to a height of c.1m. (7)

Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 160 (Monograph). SDO132.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

[ST 5606 0022] TUMULUS [OE

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 269 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(6) MOUND, probably the remains of a barrow, 1 m. S.W. of the church, is about 55 ft. in diameter and 2 ft. high. It has been much denuded.'

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

List of Dorset Barrows 1934-55 Mrs LV Grinsell

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 25-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 10-NOV-71 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> DOE, 1978, Scheduled Monument Notification DOE (IAM) AMs Eng 2 1978, p75 (Scheduling record). SDO17448.

<6> McOmish, D S, Various, Field Investigators Comments DSM, F3 DSM 17-FEB-87 (Unpublished document). SDO16333.

<7> DCMS, 1996, Scheduled Monument Notification English Heritage Schedule Entry 18/11/1996 (Scheduling record). SDO17558.

<8> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2019, LIDAR Environment Agency Composite LAST RETURN (Photograph). SDO16524.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 195838 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 20 2025 12:38PM