Monument record MDO4568 - Round barrow on the edge of France Firs, Pimperne

A Bronze Age bowl barrow on the edge of France Firs, on the boundary with Stourpaine parish. In 1972 the RCHMR recorded this monument with a diameter of 52 feet and a mound standing some 3 feet high. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

Bowl barrow:- ST 88280967, on the edge of France Firs, lies on the boundary with Stourpaine at about 350 ft. above O.D.; diam. 52 ft., ht. 3 ft. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1969 (Map). SDO18658.

(ST 88280967) Tumulus

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 55 (Monograph). SDO99.

Remains of at least seventeen barrows are found in the parish, nearly all of them levelled by ploughing. There is no record that any of them have been excavated. (19) Bowl (88280967), on the edge of France Firs, lies on the boundary with Stourpaine at about 350 ft. above O.D.; diam. 52 ft., ht. 3 ft.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 125 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205412 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 23 2022 3:06PM