Monument record MDO5025 - Bronze Age bowl barrow south west of Buzbury Rings, Tarrant Keyneston

The ploughed down remains of a Bronze Age bowl barrow on a narrow spur on Keyneston Down. In 1972 this monument was reported to be around 70 feet in diameter, with a mound standing some 3 feet high. Later reports suggest that it is now much reduced by ploughing. This may be a barrow part excavated in 1840 by J H Austen which produced Middle Bronze Age pottery. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water. The feature is visible as an earthwork on an aerial photograph dated 1948, and on Environment Agency lidar imagery. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM Project.

The remains of a bowl barrow 350m south west of Buzbury Rings hillfort on a narrow spur of Keynston Down near the parish boundary. The barrow has a low mound around 15 metres in diameter and 0.3m high. There is no sign of a ditch surrounding the mound but this will survive as a buried feature approximately 2m wide. This may be the barrow part excavated in 1840 by J H Austen which produced a Middle Bronze Age urn.

ST 91510566. Bowl barrow, 70 ft in diameter and 3 ft high. <2>

The barrow at ST 91510566 has been destroyed by ploughing. <3>

The feature is visible as an earthwork on an aerial photograph dated 1948 [5], and on Environment Agency lidar imagery [6]. The 1948 aerial photographs suggests a slightly sub-oval mound approximately 22.5m long by 17.5m wide, surrounded by a 2m wide ditch. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM Project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 105 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(22) Bowl (9151 0566), 500 yds. S.W. of Buzbury Rings, near the S. end of a N.-S. Chalk ridge, lies 330 ft. above O.D. Diam. 70 ft., ht. 3 ft.’

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1976 (Map). SDO17396.

(ST 91510566) Tumulus (NR)

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1998, Ordnance Survey Small Scale Map Revisers Comment July 1998 (Unpublished document). SWX2728.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209373 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<5> Royal Air Force, 01-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3319 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18502.

<6> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2024 3:43PM