Monument record MDO4811 - Bowl barrow on Hod Hill, Stourpaine

A Bronze Age bowl barrow situated within the circuit of the (later) Roman fort on Hod Hill. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 30 feet in diameter with a mound about one foot high. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

Approximately ST 85521077. Round barrow shows as a crop mark site within Roman Fort on Hod Hill (a). Measured as 10 paces diameter and 9 ins high by RCHM. <1>

ST 85531076. Bowl ? barrow, about 30ft diameter and about 1 foot high, lies at 470ft OD on the summit of Hod Hill, within the Roman Fort and under the remains of the via praetoria. It is poorly preserved, having been ploughed. <2>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 131 No 3 (Monograph). SDO132.

<1.1> Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1953, Journal of Roman Studies XLIII, 82 (J K St Joseph) (Serial). SDO14255.

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 265 No 12 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(12) Bowl ? (85531076) lies at 470 ft. O.D. on the summit of Hod Hill, within the Roman fort and under the remains of the via praetoria. It is poorly preserved, having been ploughed in the past. Diam. about 30 ft., ht. about 1 ft.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206201 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Sep 20 2022 2:02PM