Monument record MDO4375 - Bell barrow, one of the Deverel Down Group, Milborne St Andrew

A Bronze Age bell barrow. The mound has been disturbed, probably by antiquarian investigation. The site is visible as an earthwork mound on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM Project.

'B' - A ditchless bowl barrow, 11.0m diameter and 0.5m high. <2>

'B' - (33) - SY 82269915. Bell (?) barrow, 29ft diameter and 2 ft high with the diameter of area enclosed by the ditch measuring 56 ft. The mound has been dug into on the top and to the north west. There are only traces of a ditch Grinsell lists all three barrows as bowl-type. <3-4>

'B' SY 82279915. Barrow, ploughed almost flat. Diameter 11.0 metres, height 0.4 metres. … 'A' and 'B' resurveyed, and 'C' Surveyed, at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

The site is visible as an earthwork mound on lidar imagery <7> and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM Project.

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

('A' - SY 82169911; 'B' - SY 82269915) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 16-NOV-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 121 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 182 (Monograph). SDO136.

(33) Bell? The mound has been dug into on the top and to the NW; only traces of the ditch survive. Diam. of the 'area enclosed by the ditch 56 ft; diam of mound 29 ft., ht 2 ft.'

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 29-MAY-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

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

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

Record last edited

Sep 12 2024 5:24PM