Monument record MDO469 - Bronze Age bowl barrow on Barrow Hill, Bradpole

A Bronze Age bowl barrow lies on southern edge of Barrow Hill. It is 18m across and visible as earthworks on lidar imagery. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP project.

A bowl-barrow, 15 paces in diameter & 4'6" high "soil very clayey". <2>

A grass covered ditchless bowl barrow with a diameter of 15.0m and a height of 2.5m in the south. Flat topped. <4>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow lies on southern edge of Barrow Hill, Bradpole. It is 18m across and visible as earthworks on lidar imagery. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP project. <6>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1928-38 (Map). SWX1540.

[SY48189446] TUMULUS [OE]

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 37 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(8) BARROW, 220 yards N.N.E. of the church, stands on a small hillock. It is about 17 ft. in diam. and 5 ft. high.’

<4> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, 21/09/1954 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 97 (Monograph). SDO132.

'Soil very clayey.'

<6> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM, sy4894sw_dtm_50cm.asc (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450043 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 7 2024 2:45PM