Monument record MDO560 - Bowl barrow, Buckland Newton

One of two bowl barrows on the crest of Ridge Hill. The mound of this was 13 metres in diameter with a mound about 0.6m high but has been reduced by ploughing and is now visible only as a slight rise. The mound is encircled by a ditch about two metres wide, which has become infilled over the years. The feature is visible as a low sub-circular mound on a 1948 aerial photograph and possibly even more degraded on Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

A bowl barrow at ST 67670474 ('A'), 42ft in diameter and 2ft high, has most of the top dug away. <2-3)>

Although currently pasture, this area has recently been arable and barrow 'A' has been completely destroyed. <4>

The feature is visible as a low sub-circular 10.6m in diameter mound on a 1948 aerial photograph and possibly even more degraded on Environment Agency lidar imagery. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project. <8, 9>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 97 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, c 1962, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map, epoch five (Map). SDO13903.

(ST 67730475) Tumuli (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 54 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘(24) BARROW (67670474), at 680 ft. O.D. on Gales Hill, has had most of the top dug away; diam. 42 ft., ht. 2 ft.’

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, 19-OCT-76 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> DCMS, 1999, Scheduled Monument Notification 1999, 07-JUL-1999 (Scheduling record). SDO17351.

<6> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/088 RCHME Inventory: Dorset I (West) and Revision (Unpublished document). SDO17367.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 198901 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<8> Royal Air Force, 01-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RP 3356 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20724.

<9> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Sep 27 2024 5:43PM