Monument record MDO5755 - Bull Barrow, Holt

Bowl barrow near the edge of Holt Heath overlooking the valley of the Mannington Brook. An assemblage of flint flakes and core or cone fragments have been found in the mound erosion debris. The barrow is visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

Ditched bowl barrow; the ditch is visible on the north and south quadrants only. Surveyed at 1:2500. <1>

Two hollow scrapers, eight flakes showing secondary signs of working, seventy-seven flakes and 16 cores or cone fragments have been reserved from mound erosion debris. <4>

Bowl barrow near the edge of Holt Heath overlooking the valley of the Mannington Brook. An assemblage of flint flakes and core or cone fragments have been found in the mound erosion debris (3). The barrow is visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery (4) and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 23/05/1962 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1971 (Map). SDO17396.

(SU 05550499) Bull Barrow (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 34 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(32) BULL BARROW (05550499), bowl, near the N. edge of Holt Heath, overlooks the valley of Mannington Brook at 90 ft. above O.D. It is 48 ft. in diam. and 4½ ft. high; the top of the mound has been disturbed by digging. Either from this barrow or from one of the same name in Woolland (Dorset III, 317) came a sharpened deer bone (Barrow Diggers, 77, pl. 5, No. 16).'

<4> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1987, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1986, 171 (Serial). SDO86.

<5> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213106 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<7> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 1093650 (Index). SDO14738.

Bull Barrow, SU 00 SE 1 (1962) Index Card.Antiquity Model: Revised

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