Monument record MDO4329 - Bowl barrow on Breeze Hill, Melbury Abbas

A Bronze Age ditched bowl barrow, part of a dispersed group of barrows on Breeze Hill. When visited by the Ordnance Survey in 1956, this barrow had been ploughed out and only faint unsurveyable traces remained. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

Listed under bowl barrows (A' is also referred to a list of Long Barrows, but it is not mentioned in that list.) 'B'. Diameter 7 paces; height 6 ins. <2>

'B' This barrow has been ploughed out, and only faint unsurveyable traces remain. Its site is grass and stubble covered. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

('A' - ST 89792054; 'B' - ST 89772050) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 14-JUN-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<2.1> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 24-JAN-56 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 119 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 48 (Monograph). SDO99.

(13) Bowl (89782051), on the level summit of Breeze Hill, is over 800 ft. above O.D. ; diam 21 ft., ht. less than 1 ft.

<6> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 1), 66 (Monograph). SWX2598.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206538 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 14 2023 10:48AM