Monument record MDO5756 - Bowl barrow on Summerlug Hill, Holt

A Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1975 this monument was reported as being around 65 feet in diameter with a mound about 4 feet high. The top of the mound has been dug in to, probably in the course of antiquarian investigation. The barrow mound is visible as a low earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

SU 06870485 Bowl barrow on the summit of Summerlug Hill; diameter 65 ft, height 4 ft. The centre has been dug into. <2>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1975 this monument was reported as being around 65 feet in diameter with a mound about 4 feet high. The top of the mound has been dug in to, probably in the course of antiquarian investigation. The barrow mound is visible as a low earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP <3>.

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

(SU 06870484) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 34 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(33) BOWL BARROW (06870485), on the summit of Summerlug Hill on the N.E. side of Holt Heath; the centre of the mound has been dug into. Diam. 65 ft.; ht. 4 ft.'

<3> GetMapping, 2014, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO14101.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213115 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Sep 9 2024 11:31AM