Monument record MDO5136 - Bowl barrow near Buzbury Rings, Tarrant Rawston

Bowl barrow, much reduced by ploughing. Former diameter 40 ft., former height 2 ft. A hole has, at some point in the past, been dug in the centre of the monument. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water. The barrow is visible as a sub-circular banked earthwork with an outer ditch on 1940s aerial photographs and as a cropmark on Google Earth 2020 imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM Project.

Bowl barrow, much reduced by ploughing. Former diameter 40 ft., former height 2 ft. A hole has, at some point in the past, been dug in the centre of the monument.
The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

The barrow is visible as a sub-circular banked earthwork approximately 15m in diameter, with an outer ditch potentially between 3 and 5m wide (resolution of image is rather poor), on 1940s aerial photographs [4]. A 3m in diameter hollow is visible on the northeast side of the mound. The feature is visible as a ring ditch cropmark on Google Earth 2020 imagery [5]. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM Project.

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1916, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club for 1916, 46 (Serial). SDO25.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1938 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 91590669, ST 91560664, ST 91580658) Tumuli (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 112 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(7) BOWL (91590669), about 20 yds. N.E. of (6), has been much reduced by ploughing; former diam. 40ft., ht. 2ft; hole dug in centre.'

<4> Royal Air Force, 01-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 4320 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18501.

<5> Google Earth, 16-09-2020, Google Earth imagery 2020 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16840.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209348 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 7 2024 3:52PM