Monument record MDO5333 - Bowl barrow, one of the Deverel Down Group, Winterborne Whitechurch

A bowl barrow situated in the corner of a modern field, and recorded as being around 50 feet in diameter and one foot high. The site of this plough-levelled Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a soilmark mound on aerial photographs and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM Project.

A group of round barrows on Deverel Down in Milborne St Andrew and Winterborne Whitechurch parishes. 'B' - SY 82329936 Bowl barrow, heavily ploughed, 50ft diameter and 1 ft high. Grinsell stated that after ploughing a "core of brown soil with circumferential circle of chalk rubble" was revealed. (RCHM Winterborne Whitechurch No 21; Grinsell's Milton Abbas No 6). <2-3>

SY 822993. Group of six round barrows on Deverell Down. Scheduled. (This group undoubtably includes some of the barrows at SY 821991 - See SY 89 NW 16). <4>

'B' - SY 82319936. Bowl barrow, in arable, ploughed almost flat. Diameter approximately 15.0 metres, height 0.3 metres. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

The site of this plough-levelled Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a soilmark mound on aerial photographs <7> and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 822993) Tumuli (NR) (five shown)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 120-1 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 314 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(21) Bowl (82329936), in the corner of a modern field; diam. about 50 ft., ht. 1 ft.'

<4> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 66 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 29-MAY-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455857 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<7> National Monuments Record, 21-APR-1976, NMR 926/424-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20778.

Record last edited

Sep 12 2024 5:25PM