Monument record MDO4461 - Bowl barrow north of Cayles Down Copse, Milton Abbas

A Bronze Age bowl barrow situated on the north slope of a ridge. In 1970 this monument was reported as a slight mound around 52 feet in diameter and about 1 foot high, in a ploughed field. Cropmarks visible on aerial photographs suggest the mound is surrounded by a ditch about 8 feet wide, and possibly with a gap on the SE side.

Bowl barrow ST 81550006, N. of Cayles Down Copse, on the N. slope of a broad ridge over 400 ft. above O.D., has been much ploughed. The crop mark suggests that the ditch is penannular with an interruption 6 ft. wide on the S.E. Diameter of mound 52 ft., ht. 1 ft.; width of ditch 8 ft.<1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 200 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(29) Bowl (81550006), N. of Cayles Down Copse, on the N. slope of a broad ridge over 400 ft. above O.D., has been much ploughed. The crop mark suggests that the ditch is penannular with an interruption 6 ft. wide on the S.E. Diameter of mound 52 ft., ht. 1 ft.; width of ditch 8 ft.’

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205753 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Mar 18 2022 2:39PM