Monument record MDO42837 - Bronze Age bowl barrow, Hog Cliff Hill, Maiden Newton

A sub circular banked mound is visible as an earthwork and cropmark on aerial photographs on Hog Cliff Hill, Maiden Newton. The feature is recorded as a tumulus on the OS 1st Edition map and is probably a Bronze Age bowl barrow. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project. The barrow is a Scheduled Monument (1003228).

SY 62199673. A bowl barrow, 60ft diameter by 2.5ft high situated on Hog Cliff Hill. Listed by Grinsell as a "Cairn, or stone heap". (2,3)

A grass-covered bowl barrow, 17.0m diameter by 0.8m high. No trace of ditch or excavation. (4)

An oval grass covered flinty bowl barrow at SX 62179676 which measures 16.5m by 11.2m and 0.5m high. (See GP). Revised at 1:2500 on MSD. (5)

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

SY 62189676) Tumulus (NR)

<3> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-48, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 4272-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16841.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 153 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(16) BOWL BARROW, on Hog Cliff Hill 1¾ m. S.E. of the church, is 60 ft. in diam. and 2½ ft. high.'

<5> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 14-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<6> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

Cairn or stone heap.

<7> Ordnance Survey, 18-APR-69, OS69114/049 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16848.

<9> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 12-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453053 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 22 2024 4:40PM