Monument record MDO4911 - Bowl barrow, Tarrant Gunville

Levelled Bronze Age bowl barrow located north east of Stubhampton Bottom. Recorded as almost ploughed out with a diameter of 13m south west to north east and 17m north west to south east out; surviving to a height of just 0.2m. There is no visible ditch. Not discernible on Air Photographs.

(ST 91091488) Tumulus (NR). <2>

(ST 91091488) A bowl barrow. Diameter 40 feet, height less than 1 foot. <1, 3>

ST 9109 1488 (approx) A bowl barrow situated on a false crest to the north east of Stubhampton Bottom, is now almost ploughed out, being between 13 metres south west to north east and 17 metres north west to south east with a height of 0.2 metres. There is no visible ditch.

Not discernible on OS air photographs <4, 5>. Divorced survey at 1:2500 on OS 495. <6>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, p133 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 6 inches to 1 mile, 1963 (Map). SDO11924.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 96 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(37) BOWL BARROW (91091488), on the shoulder of a spur overlooking Stubhampton Bottom, is 450 ft. above O.D.; diam. 40 ft., ht. less than 1 ft.'

<4> Ordnance Survey, OS 75-371 093, OS 75-371 093 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18499.

<5> Ordnance Survey, OS 75-371 094, OS 75-371 094 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18509.

<6> Barrett, G, Various, Field Investigators Comments GB, F1 GB 26-JAN-78 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210164 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 26 2023 4:58PM