Monument record MDO42922 - Bronze Age bowl barrow, Magiston Hill, Godmanstone

A low sub-circular banked mound is visible as an earthwork on current Lidar imagery on the east sidew of Magiston Hill, Godmanstone. The feature is recorded as a Bronze Age bowl barrow (NRHE Hob UID 453139) and is a Scheduled Monument (List Entry 1002451). It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

(SY 64089699) Tumulus (NR). (1)

A barrow situated on the west edge of Godmanstone parish 1000 yds south west of (SY 69 NW 28) is 33ft in diameter but ploughed almost level; identifiable as a circular area of flints (2). Listed by Grinsell as a bowl barrow "18 paces diameter and 2ft high" in 1939. (2,3)

Authy 2 description is incorrect. The barrow, of bowl-type is well defined and measures 21.0m diameter by 0.8m high with a heavy scatter of flint. Under plough with no trace of ditch. (4)

Reduced by ploughing to a flinty mound 15.0m in diameter and 0.4m high. (GP).

Revised at 1:2500 on MSD. (5)

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

(SY 64089699) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 121 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(8) Barrow, on the W. edge of the parish 1,000 yards S.W. of (7), is 33 ft. in diam. but has been ploughed level; it is identifiable by a circular area of flints.'

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 02-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 110 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 04-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<6> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2019, LIDAR Environment Agency Composite LAST RETURN (Photograph). SDO16524.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453139 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 13 2022 12:29PM