Monument record MDO561 - Bowl barrow, Buckland Newton

One of two bowl barrows on the crest of Ridge Hill. The mound of this monument is now elongated and reduced in size by ploughing but was formerly around eight metres in diameter and about 0.5m high. 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 as a more degraded sub-oval mound on Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

A bowl barrow at ST 67660477 ('B') 27ft in diameter and 2ft high. <2-3>

Although currently pasture, this area has recently been arable. Barrow 'B' is slighly elongated NE-SW and measures 11.0m by 8.0m with a height of 0.7m. There is no visible ditch. 'B' correctly shown on 1:2500. <4>

The feature is visible as a low sub-circular 6.5m in diameter mound on a 1948 aerial photograph and possibly as a more degraded sub-oval mound on Environment Agency lidar imagery and 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.

Truncated.

<2> 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.

‘(25) BARROW (67660477) 30 yds. N.N.W. of (2); diam. 27 ft., ht. 2 ft.’

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

(ST 67730475) Tumuli (NR)

<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 Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, 19-OCT-76 (Unpublished document).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Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/088 RCHME Inventory: Dorset I (West) and Revision (Unpublished document).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 5:41PM