Monument record MDO4376 - Bowl barrow, one of the Deverel Down Group, Milborne St Andrew

The probable site of a plough-levelled Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs. The site was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM Project.

'E' - SY 82219930. Bowl barrow, 36ft diameter and 9 ins high in an area of former ploughing (RCHM Milborne St Andrew No 34; Grinsell's Milborne No 9). <2-3>

SY 822993. Group of six round barrows on Deverell Down. Scheduled. (This group undoubtably includes some of the barrows at SY 821991 - See SY 89 NW 16). <4>

'E' SY 82219930. Bowl barrow, diameter 10.0 metres, height 0.3 metres. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

The probable site of a plough-levelled Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch 12m across on aerial photographs taken in 1976 <7>. The site was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM Project.

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

(Centred SY 822993) Tumuli (NR) (five shown)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 120-1 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 182 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(34) Bowl (82219930), 180 yds. N.E. of (33), lies within an area of former ploughing. Diam. 36 ft., ht. 9 ins.’

<4> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 66 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 29-MAY-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455857 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<7> National Monuments Record, 21-APR-1976, NMR 926/424-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20778.

Record last edited

Sep 12 2024 5:22PM