Monument record MDO4378 - Bowl barrow, one of the Deverel Down Group, Milborne St Andrew

The site of a plough-levelled Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a low earthwork mound on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM Project.

A group of round barrows on Deverel Down in Milborne St Andrew and Winterborne Whitechurch parishes. 'C' - SY 82209936. Bowl barrow, 36ft diameter and 1 1/2ft high has its centre dug and is much ploughed. There are traces of a ditch. (RCHM Milborne St Andrew No 36 Grinsell's Milborne No 7).<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>

'C' - SY 82199936. Bowl barrow, ploughed down. Diameter 11.0 metres; height 0.6 metres. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

The site is visible as a low 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.

(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.

‘(36) Bowl (82209936), 70 yds. N. of (34), has its centre dug into and is much ploughed. Diam. 36 ft., ht. 1½ ft. Traces of ditch.’

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 29-MAY-81 (Unpublished document).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> Environment Agency, 15-DEC-2023, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO20691.

Record last edited

Sep 12 2024 5:23PM