Monument record MDO4361 - Bowl barrow south of West End Barn, Milborne St Andrew

The remains of a bowl barrow 70m south east of West End Barn. The mound has been reduced in height by ploughing but is still visible as an earthwork, c30m in diameter and 0.5m high. The site is visible as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM Project. Traces of an internal mound are visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery.

A bowl barrow. 30 paces diameter, 5 ft high. <2>

A grass covered bowl barrow 30.0 metres in diameter and 1.5 metres high. A brick lined water point has been sunk in the centre of the barrow. <3>

Bowl barrow (78899636), 60 yds SE of West End Barn, at about 250 ft above OD, at the ead of a shallow combe running E. The mound has been damaged by former ploughing and by the insertion of a brick inspection hole for a pipeline. Diam 95 ft ht 2 ft. <4>

SY 78889635. No change. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

The site is visible as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM Project. Traces of an internal mound are visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery. <7-8>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 78889636) Tumulus (NR)

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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 13/11/1954 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 181 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(19) Bowl (78899636), 60 yds. S.E. of West End Barn, at about 250 ft. above O.D., at the head of a shallow coombe running E. The mound has been damaged by former ploughing and by the insertion of a brick inspection hole for a pipeline. Diam. 95 ft., ht. 2 ft.’

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 01/10/1980 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454538 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<7> Environment Agency, 15-DEC-2023, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO20691.

<8> National Monuments Record, 30-MAR-1982, NMR 2110/266 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20895.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2024 2:00PM